INDIAN TRAIN WRECKED.
PLUNGE INTO RIVER. FORTY PASSENGERS KILLED. OUTRAGE BY MALCONTENTS. ; i " By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received Japuary 30, 12.30 a.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. DELHI, Jan. 29. Forty persons were killed and 30 were injured in a railway disaster which occurred 100 miles from Rangoon, on the main line to Mandalay. A mail train which was crossing a bridge near Kyautaga dashed into the river. The engine and three carriages full of people were submerged. It has been practically established that the disaster was the work of train-wreck-ers at Kyautaga, which for some time has been a centre of disaffection.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 9
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