6 Die as Snowstorm, Winds Hit Tokyo Area
Associated Press
TOKYO —
A spring snowstorm in the Tokyo area left six people dead, seven sailors missing at sea and at least 294 people injured, 204 of them in a train collision, police said today.
Winds as high as 49 m.p.h. whipped the area as the storm dumped up to 20 inches of wet snow. The rail crash occurred when a commuter train slammed into a second train that had stopped for repairs to power lines damaged by the storm.
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