The company halted such train operations on the Tohoku line after a pair of coupled trains suddenly became detached while traveling in Tokyo.

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JR East says the trains had been traveling at about 60 kilometers per hour and that after separating were about eight meters apart. There were 642 passengers on the trains, but no one was injured.