Iran Opens Investigation Over Deadly Train Blast

World | February 20, 2004, Friday // 00:00

Iran has launched investigation over the circumstances at which scores of railway wagons loaded with chemicals, fuel and fertiliser managed to roll out of control, derail and explode causing the deaths of 320 people and injuring 450 others, Iranian news agency IRNA informed on Friday. But many are still under rubble and we are expecting the death toll to rise. In the freak incident, the string of some 50 wagons ran away in the early hours of Wednesday and derailed at Khayyam station near Neyshabour, some 75 kilometres (50 miles) from the northeastern city of Mashhad.

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