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36 killed in rail crash

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BELGRADE, August 5.

Thirty-six people were, killed and 76 injured when a rail bus packed with day trippers collided with a freight train near Belgrade last night, police

said this morning. Radio Belgrade said the rail bus was full of people returning home from a fair at-the village of Beli Potok when the accident occurred about 16 miles south of Belgrade.

tunnel near Zenica, Central Jugoslavia. In January, 1964, 61 people died in a train crash in Jajinci, near Belgrade.

Both trains were moving at the time of the disaster, after the rail bus had pulled out of a small station.

Twenty-one people were reported killed outright in the crash. The injured were taken to Belgrade hospitals. Rescuers struggled for several hours to pull out the victims and transport them to hospital, as the scene of the disaster was difficult to approach. A heavy downpour earlier in the evening made the approach to the railway line slippery, and first aid could be administered only after a special train arrived from Belgrade some two hours after the disaster.

Last night’s crash was the third big rail disaster in Jugoslavia this year and the second in less than a month. On July 17, 14 schoolchildren and their teacher died when a passenger train ran into a stationary goods train at Sarajevo. In February, at least. 34 people died in a fire in a passenger train stopped in a

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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32678, 6 August 1971, Page 1

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36 killed in rail crash Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32678, 6 August 1971, Page 1

36 killed in rail crash Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32678, 6 August 1971, Page 1