40 Killed When Train Hits Bus
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BANGKOK, July 7. Forty people were killed and 39 injured, many of them seriously, when a packed, driverless bus rolled into the path of an oncoming passenger train in the north-eastern town of Korat yesterday.
Reports said bodies of the dead, dying and injured were strewn over a wide area after the express train, travelling from north-eastern Nongkhai to Bangkok, hit the bus. Twenty-two of the dead were women and children and a Buddhist priest Ten of the injured were still unconscious, the reports said. The driver of the bus, who jumped to safety when the
bus rolled towards the railway line, has been detained by police.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31416, 8 July 1967, Page 13
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11440 Killed When Train Hits Bus Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31416, 8 July 1967, Page 13
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