Chuo ExpresswayRELATED TOKYO: At least nine people died after a major Japanese road tunnel collapsed at the weekend, trapping vehicles and sparking a blaze, media reports said Monday.
Police have confirmed that nine bodies were found in three vehicles inside the Sasago tunnel on the Chuo Expressway, which collapsed Sunday morning, Jiji Press and Kyodo News said.
Concrete ceiling panels crushed cars and triggered the fire inside the nearly five-kilometre (three-mile) tunnel, 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of Tokyo.
Emergency workers had collected five charred bodies
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