Bad Rail Smash In Turkey; At Least 40 Killed
LONDON, Oct. 31 (Rec 6 pm).—A train which was taking people to Ankara for Independence Day celebrations was derailed near Irmak, and crashed down an embankment, says the British United Press Ankara correspondent. Although "The Times” correspondent. reported that 100 persons were killed and 150 injured, later reports give the casualties as 40 killed and 100 injured, thirty 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 freight train collided at Samsun
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1948, Page 5
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