‘Self-immolation’ on bullet train south of Tokyo leaves two dead, 26 injured

[brooklynite]

Source: Japan Times

Two passengers, one male and one female, died Tuesday in an apparent self-immolation aboard a speeding bullet train south of Tokyo.

The man, aged 71 and a resident of Suginami Ward, Tokyo, was near the entrance doors at the front of the Nozomi 225?s lead car when he poured a flammable liquid from a white plastic tank over his head and set it alight, police said.

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The woman, who was in her 50s, was found at the opposite end of the first car, according to the police and firefighters.

She reportedly died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/06/30/national/two-dead-suspected-self-immolation-shin-osaka-bound-shinkansen/#.VZKf1vlVhBc

[cosmicone]

1. Why risk so many other people's lives?

If you want to fucking kill yourself, take an overdose of sleeping pills or jump off a remote cliff.

[Skittles]

3. perhaps they were trying to harm others

[Art_from_Ark]

4. The woman who died was apparently just a victim

Japanese news reports say that she died while trying to evacuate and collapsed in the deck between the #1 and #2 cars. It sounds like she may have been the last one out of the #1 car and breathed in too much carbon monoxide while evacuating.

[shenmue]

2. So sad