Japanese train death toll rises to 50

The death toll after today's Japanese train crash is now 50 and officials say the number of injured had increased to 417.

Distraught relatives rushed to hspitals to search lists of the injured and dead. Takamichi Hayashi said his elder brother, 19-year-old Hiroki, had called their mother on a mobile phone from inside one of the train cars just after the crash but remained unaccounted for. He said he had heard Hiroki was among the four trapped in the wreckage.