52 KILLED
RAIL TROLLEY ACCIDENT INSIAM (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Feb 5. Fifty-two were killed, including the Siamese Minister of Communications, Mr Dechatiwong, and 19 seriously injured, when a ran trolley plunged from a bridge into a ravine on the Burma-Siam “death railway, says Reuter’s Bangkok correspondent. The injured included the Director-General of Siamese Railways. Mr Sakoontanak, ond the Director-General of the Railways Department, Mr Cithsiwat. The party was engaged on a tour of. inspection when the trolley-car overturned while passing over a collapsing bridge. A hospital train was rushed to the scene.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1947, Page 7
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