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| Many casualties in NK train crash |
| 2004-04-22 |
| Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 12:13 PM EDT (1613 GMT) Looks like Iran sold North Korea the plans for their own train bomb. (CNN) -- Two trains carrying flammable materials have exploded in a North Korean train station, leaving a large number of casualties, South Korean media reported. North Korea declared a state of emergency after Thursday’s explosion, The Associated Press quoted South Korea’s Yonhap news agency as reporting. Witnesses said the explosion was the result of a collision between the trains at Ryongchon station, South Korean media reported. Just hours earlier, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had passed through the station on a return trip from China, South Korean news network YTN said. Darn it! Missed him by that much, Chief. Ryongchon is northwest of the North Korean capital Pyongyang and about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of the country’s border with China. Yonhap, quoting unidentified sources in the Chinese city of Dandong, said the trains were carrying oil and/or liquefied petroleum gas. The incident happened about 1 p.m. local time, Yonhap said. "The area around Ryongchon station has turned into ruins as if it were bombarded," Yonhap quoted witnesses as saying, AP said. "Debris from the explosion soared high into the sky and drifted to Sinuju," a North Korean town on the border with China, AP quoted the agency as saying. Yonhap’s report of the state-of-emergency declaration gave no details. Yonhap said officials of the secretive North Korean government had put in place a "type of state of emergency" around the town of Ryongchon near the Chinese border. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #2 Too bad we will be the ones that will send them aid |
| Posted by: smokeysinse 2004-04-22 6:06:02 PM |
| #1 Duplicate post, please see: Report: Thousands Dead or Injured in N.Korea Rail Blast |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-22 2:42:06 PM |