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Elevated Tokyo train hits crane
25/03/2007 20:25 - (SA)
Tokyo - About 130 people were rescued
from an elevated train in Tokyo on Sunday after it was hit by a
crane, media reports said.
They were rescued unharmed after nearly two hours when
another train using an adjacent track pulled alongside allowing
the stranded passengers to walk across a board between the doors
of the two trains, Kyodo news agency said.
The front car of the monorail train, linking central Tokyo
to the city's Haneda airport, was struck by a crane being used
in a street 8m below the tracks, it said.
One of the rescued passengers, a 37-year-old woman who
complained of feeling ill, was taken to hospital, it said. The
monorail service resumed after being closed for seven hours due
to the accident.
- Reuters
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