BLAZE SURROUNDS HAPLESS BURMESE
FORTY-SEVEN PERISH TRYING TO GET OIL FROM BROKEN LINE (Australian and N.Z. Pi'css Association J Reed. 11 a.m. DELHI, Friday. Forty-seven persons were burned to death, including 18 women, and over 30 were hurt in a blaze following the bursting of the Burmah Oil Company’s oil pipe-line at Paungde, 130 miles from Rangoon. Crowds of villagers rushed to the spot with naked lights to collect oil, which ignited and surrounded them in a mass of flames. The telegraph wires were burned, resulting in a delay in the arrival of medical aid.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 9
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95BLAZE SURROUNDS HAPLESS BURMESE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 9
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