TOCHIGI (TR) – Tochigi Prefectural Police are investigating what is believed to have been a suicide after a boy was killed by an East Japan Railway train in the town of Nogi on Tuesday, reports NHK (Sept. 4).
At around 6:30 a.m., the boy, a second-year high school student, was struck and killed by a local JR Utsunomiya Line train traveling between Nogi and Koga stations.
According to security camera footage, the boy crossed beyond a fence and onto the tracks prior to the arrival of the train, police said.
On August 29, another boy, 16, was hit and killed by a train on the same line in another apparent suicide.
