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A serious railway accident was averted yesterday morning when a train pulled to a halt a few yards of another train that had jumped the rails between the Fort and Maradana stations. The derailed train was put on the rails again. Following the dera...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Six passengers were killed and 10 injured in this crash in which a bus and a train were involved on a level-crossing at Mandella, near Tivoli, east of Rome. Five of the dead were students and the schools of Tivoli were closed in mourning. The bus ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Eight people had miraculous escapes from death when a 120-diesel train crashed through station buffers and a stone wall to plough across a road and through a row of terraced houses at 35-40 m.p.h., near Oldham, Lancs last week. Driver Harry Pearse...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The search for the trapped and the dead beneath the debris of the destroyed houses and the boulders.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Searching for the Dead from the Walkanda Earth Slip
The earth slip in Walkanda completely flattened 2 houses with 11 residents inside. The locals are digging through the soil for the dead bodies of the 8 people that had been buried under one house.
The Times of Ceylon Press
This father heard his son scream in terror. Now shock showing ion his face, he comforts the boy.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Eight ski-ers, five of them from the Paris Alpine Club, including M. Jean Maurin, chef de Cabinet to M. Jeanneney, President of the French Senate, were killed when they were buried in an avalanche on the Grand Galibier, near Grenoble, France. A ni...
The Times of Ceylon Press
A special Indian Air Force plane yesterday brought the bodies of the 16 Ceylonese who died in the Farukhabad rail crash on Sunday. These scenes at the Ratmalana airport show the coffins being loaded from the plane.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, Wife and Daughter
Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, wife and his little daughter Elena.
Novosti Press Agency