FORTY DEATHS
BURMESE R*!IWAY DISASTER TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. DELHI, January 29. (Received January 30, at 1 a.m.) Forty persons were killed and thirty injured in a railway disaster 100 miles from Rangoon, on the main line to Mandalay. A mail train which was crossing a bridge near Kyantaga dashed into the river, and the engine and three full carriages were submerged. It is practically establisod that the disaster was the work of wreckers at Kyantaga, which for some time has been a centre of disaffection.—A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19777, 30 January 1928, Page 5
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