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Police and ambulance workers attending to some of the people who were injured recently by lightning.
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Fire at the Fisheries Corporation Boat Yard In Mattakkuliya
Fireman f the Colombo Fire Brigade an the Navy trying to put out the massive blaze at the Fisheries Corporation boat-yard in Mattakkuliya yesterday.
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
300 Dead In Saar Mine Disaster
300 miners lost their lives and more than 80 are in hospital, many of them seriously hurt in an explosion at the Luisenthal coal mine at Voelklingen, Saar. The Luisenthal mine had been famous for its safety record but the is one of the worst in th...
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Mr. Jeyaratnam Abraham of the staff of St. Benedict's College, Colombo, is going to India shortly to study sugar technology at the National Sugar Institute, Kanpur on a scholarship granted by the Government of India in their general cultura schola...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Mr. W. J. Rasayanagam of the Y's Men's Club of the Colombo YMCA, receiving a gift from Mr. Byron Kanel, President of the Washburn Y's Men's Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Rasayanagam recently spent three months in the USA on a scholarship off...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Train leap-frogging at Blackpool
Six persons were killed and 120 injured, recently, when a holiday express crashed into a stationary train at Blackpool. The express 'leap-frogged' over the train: picture shows survivors stumbling across a field, dazed and shaken.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Train collision in Arnhem, Netherlands
Express workers treating injured passengers, after two trains had collided recently near the Westervoort Bridge in Arnhem (Netherlands). Five people were killed and 22 hurt.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Two wagons loaded with furniture overturned at the Maho railway station, while being shunted. The driver of the shunting engine and the shunter have been interdicted and an inquiry is being held by the Railway Department.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Another view of the derailment, showing one of the coaches reduced to matchwood after it had telescoped into another. The electric fitting crashed to the floor as a result of the impact.
The Times of Ceylon Press