Train crash toll 73

A woman is rescued about 15 hours after a derailed commuter train smashed into an apartment building in Amagasaki, western Japan. Police are still looking for clues to find out what caused the country8217;s worst rail crash in more than 40 years.

They raided the offices of the train8217;s operator as weeping relatives claimed the remains of many of the 73 confirmed dead from a makeshift morgue. Investigations were focusing on the speed at which the crowded train was travelling when it jumped the tracks on the outskirts of the western city of Osaka and smashed into an apartment building just after rush hour on Monday morning.

West Japan Railway Co. JR West president is expected to resign taking responsibility for the disaster, in which 440 people were injured.