TRAIN BLOWN UP ON VIADUCT
About 100 Dead In Indo-China ll pm-) SAIGON. June 24. Vietminh rebels caused Indo-China’s worst railway disaster on Monday when they blew up a viaduct as two engines with 15 trucks containing soldiers and civilians passed over it. .Tbe train crashed 50ft into a ravine, Killing nearly 100 persons. . So tha bodies of 21 civilians and six soldiers nave been recovered. Many bodies are still trapped in the wreckage. Nineteen persons have been sent to hospital. The viaduct was between the two important east coast towns of Hue and Tourane. Traffic will be held up for at least 20 days.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27075, 25 June 1953, Page 9
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