Twenty-five passengers and the driver were injured when a train derailed in western Japan.

The president of West Japan Railway is to resign following a horrific derailment that killed 107 people, it was announced today.

Rescuers pulled the final survivors from the gnarled wreckage of Japan’s worst train crash in decades today as investigators raided rail operator offices for clues about why the train skidded from the tracks, killing 73 people.

Rescuers today pulled three people believed to be the last survivors from the wreckage of Japan’s worst rail accident in four decades, and raised the death toll to 73 as they found more bodies inside twisted metal train cars.

A crowded commuter train derailed and smashed into a block of flats in western Japan today, killing at least 37 people and injuring 200 others.