BURMESE TRAGEDY
OIL PIPE-LINE BURSTS.
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(Recd. Oct. 13, 9.43 a.m.) DELHI, October 12. Forty-seven persons were burnt to death, including eighteen women, and over thirty were hurt in a blaze following the bursting of the Burmah Oil Company’s oil pipe-line at Saungde, 130 miles from Rangoon. Crowds of villagers rushed to the spot with naked lights to collect the oil, which ignited and surrounded them in a mass of flames.
The telegraph wires were burnt, resulting in delay in the arrival of medicail aid.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1928, Page 7
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