Tokyo, Oct 12: A swarm of young millipedes stopped a train in the mountains near Osaka, western Japan as they covered a length of railway tracks following a massive hatch, press reports said.
The one-coach train, carrying only two passengers, skidded to a halt after crushing an "enormous amount" of the white insects, each measuring three to six centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches), along 400 meters (1,330 feet) of track, the reports said Sunday.
The incident occured on a shadowy upward slope on a local train line in Hyogo prefecture, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) west of Tokyo, the reports said.
Millipedes are known to favor dark conditions and a hatch of the insects has occured once every eights years in the area.

Bureau Report