1953 Col des Nuages derailment
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1953 Col des Nuages derailment
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The Col des Nuages derailment was a train derailment that occurred in eastern French Indochina, in modern-day Vietnam, on 24 June 1953, during the First Indochina War. Railway officials announced the day after that "about 100 or more" were killed when a passenger train plunged 50 feet through a sabotaged viaduct. Two locomotives and 18 cars crashed down in a ravine at the Col des Nuages, a mountain pass on the route between the ancient Vietnamese capital of Huế and the port of Tourane. The pass
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Railway accident caused by sabotage
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Col_des_Nuages_derailment
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2023-08-30T05:42:04Z
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