Lo que dicen los registros
- Cuándo
- 26 dic 2004
- Tipo
- Accidente ferroviario
- Coordenadas
- 6.17° N, 80.09° E
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 1700
- Cause
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck
Deadliest rail disaster
On 26 December 2004, a crowded passenger train was destroyed on a coastal railway in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, by the tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. It is considered the largest rail disaster in history, with an estimated 900 to 1,700 deaths.
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2 fuentes lo registran
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Página de la fuente
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · lo llama “2004年スリランカ津波列車事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Página de la fuente
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