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2 dead, 20 injured in pile-up in Japan

Xinhua, March 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

Two people were killed and over 20 others injured in a pile-up involving more than 10 vehicles in a tunnel in HigashiHiroshima city in western Japan early on Thursday, local media reported.

The accident occurred at around 7:30 a.m. local time in Hachihommatsu Tunnel of Sanyo Expressway in Higashihiroshima when a rear-end collision between two vehicles happened, local police said, adding that following vehicles collided one after another and several were burnt down.

Some 70 people were evacuated from the tunnel, among whom one was in a state of the cardiopulmonary and later confirmed dead, over 20 injured were sent to hospital.

Police later found another person dead within a car in the tunnel, bringing the death toll to two.

Fires in the tunnel were almost put out before 9:00 a.m. local time, the report said. Enditem