Workers pulled the uniformed body of the driver from the wreckage of Japan’s rail disaster today as the death toll rose to 106, police said.

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 PACKED commuter train, which was behind schedule and may have been speeding, jumped the tracks yesterday, killing 57 people and injuring 440 in Japan’s worst rail accident in 40 years.

Rescue workers in Japan say the death toll from today's commuter train crash has now increased 56.

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.