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The Joint Funeral in Matale

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From the left; Vellahami, Lechchaman, Jayasilam, Nagaraja, Jayasingha, standing by the coffins.

The Times of Ceylon Press

The Pastor's A Postman, Too

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• 1961-8-8

The Times of Ceylon Press

The Sakuye Tribe

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The Sakuye tribe lives in the Boran region of Abyssinia. This region lies on the Abyssinia- Kenya. Italian Somaliland border and most of the tribes are warlike.

Photopress London

The mail train crash at Mirigama

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• 1964-10-20

The mail train crash at Mirigama, photograph taken by Royal Ceylon Air Force Reconnaissance aircraft.

The Times of Ceylon Press

The torn-off wheel of the train - Aluthgama

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• 1957-12-15

The diesel rail car which crashed with a stationary train at Aluthgama. The torn-off wheel of the train.

The Times of Ceylon Press

The torn-off wheels of the train

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• 1957-12-16

The Times of Ceylon Press

Tokyo-Aomori train overturned

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• 1967-5-25

Three persons were killed and 43 others injured when this 600-passenger express train, bound from Tokyo to Aomori in northern Japan, jumped the track and overturned. The accident was attributed to bent tracks, believed to have been caused when a t...

The Times of Ceylon Press

Toppled wagons

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• 1963-5-14

The toppled wagons after the accident.

The Times of Ceylon Press

Train

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• 1957-9-19

The Times of Ceylon Press

Train

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• 1964-10-17

Talaimannar mail train derailment in 17.10.64 near Mirigama.

The Times of Ceylon Press