One dead, several injured in Tokyo explosion

By Xinhua

Tokyo : A young woman died and five others were injured in an explosion at a spa facility in downtown Tokyo's Shibuya Ward Tuesday, police said.


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The woman's heart and lung stopped functioning, fire fighters said. She was in her 20s.

Several people are feared injured in a boiler explosion, which destroyed the building, where the spa facility for females was located, TV footage showed.

The building was located at a busy street in one of Tokyo's most populous area, about 500 meters away from a city train station.

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