A man died on Tuesday after setting himself on fire while riding a bullet train from Tokyo.
Another passenger on the train went into cardiac arrest, Reuters reports, and two others were seriously injured. The man is believed to have been in his 30s, and was found covered in a flammable liquid, officials said. The train was headed to Osaka with 1,000 passengers when someone hit the emergency button and the passenger was discovered. Local media is airing footage showing passengers streaming out of a train carriage filled with smoke.
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