INDIAN RAILWAY SMASH.
SABOTAGE SUGGESTED EIGHTY KILLED; 65° INJURED. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. ... ' Patna; July it. It is believed 100 were killed and 200 injured when the Punjab-llowrah express was derailed near Nihta. Station. The engine and three coaches were flung: down an embankment. It is officially announced, according to the Daily Mail’s correspondent, that 80 were killed mud 65 injured. All the victims were Indians. Turned-up raiis suggest'the disaster was due to sabotage.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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77INDIAN RAILWAY SMASH. Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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