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TURKISH TRAIN DISASTER Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 30. A train which was taking people to Ankara for the independence Day celebrations was derailed near Irmak, and crashed down an embankment, says the British United Press correspondent at Ankara. Although The Times correspondent reported 100 persons killed and 150 injured, later reports give the casualties as 40 killed and iOO injured, 30 of whom are in a serious condition. Reuter’s Ankara correspondent says many of the injured, who were trapped for several hours in the wreckage, died on the way to hospital. This is Turkey’s second serious train crash in two days. Twelve persons died and 21 were injured on Friday when a passenger train and a freight train collided at Samsun.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26917, 1 November 1948, Page 5
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