Five Believed Killed; Many Others Injured
(N.Z.P.A.
— Reuter.
CQpyrigjit)
Received Tuesday, 10 a.m. PARIS, July 4. Several passengers were killed and a number of others injured wfien the Paris-Strasbourg express was derailed near Nancy today. ; "ft is believed that five are dead but the bodies of those kilied were so mangled that it has not yet been possible to ascertain the definite number of victims. Estimd-tes, of the number injured range up to 4Q. Those killed were travelling in a third-class) :coach, which . Was wreckefi. • ' The derailment is • believed to haye been caused by heat'expanding the rails.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1949, Page 5
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