Twwo people are feared dead after a man set himself on fire on a high-speed bullet train on Tuesday. "We have been informed that there was a passenger in a car on the train who covered him or herself with oil and set it on fire," a spokesperson for Japan Rail told AFP. A man and a woman are dead, with around 20 others injured, NHK reports. TBS has footage of passengers evacuating the smoke-filled carriage. TBS television broadcast a video of passengers evacuating the smoke-filled coach, some coughing, others covering their faces with towels and handkerchiefs.Japanese media quoted a witness as saying the man, who has not been named, poured an oil-like substance over his head and set himself alight with a cigarette lighter about 30 minutes after the train, carrying 1,000 passengers, had left Tokyo en route to Osaka.
