A HOLOCAUST
THIRTEEN INCINERATED,
FIVE INJURED IN FRANCE.
DISASTER ON AN EXCURSION.
PINE FOREST SET ON FIRE. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) PARIS, May 28. Owing to a tyre bursting, a motor coach collided with a telegraph pole at Lipostey, near Bordeaux, and caught fire. Thirteen passengers were incinerated, and three were injured. > The burning coach ignited a. pine forest, which is still ablaze, preventing access to the wreckage to rescue the victims, whose shrivelled corpses are visible inside the twisted skeleton of the coach. Telephonic and telegraphic communication are broken, but aeroplanes are endeavouring to render assistance. The victims were members of an excursion to Paris arranged by a Madrid newspaper.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 192, 28 May 1934, Page 5
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