Plane overruns runway in Japan, 20 hurt

An Asiana Airbus A320 skids off the runway as it landed at Hiroshima airport in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture on April 14, 2015.  Twenty-two passengers were injured and they were taken to a hospital near-by. The airliner, based in Seoul, Korea, had left the city for Hiroshima, Japan with 73 passengers and 8 crews aboard and it skidded and spun around the airstrip while landing.    ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

More than 20 passengers were injured when an Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 overran a runway in western Japan, officials and local media say.

The South Korean carrier’s Flight OZ162, which took off at Incheon airport, was attempting to land in Hiroshima when the incident occurred on Tuesday evening, officials said.

“Around 23 passengers were injured, but no one was killed,” a local fire department official said. “So far we have heard that all of the injuries were not serious.”

All of the passengers and the eight crew members on board escaped from the plane’s emergency exits, local media reported.

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