just after the rush hour

Early this morning in Japan, a train has derailed and hit a building, killing 49 people and injuring about 300. The commuter train came off the tracks at Amagasaki near Osaka, 410km (255 miles) west of Tokyo, and one carriage rammed into a building. Some passengers said the train appeared to have been travelling too fast and began to shake before it derailed. One said that the train overran a stop at the previous station and so it backtracked, so the driver was likely in a hurry because the train was running late.