What the records say
- When
- 1 Feb 1970
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 34.42° S, 58.67° W
- Description
- Train wreck in Argentina in 1970
- Deaths
- 236
- Injured
- 400
3 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina (a rear-end collision) kills 236.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “cerca de la localidad argentina de Benavídez (provincia de Buenos Aires), mueren 236 personas en la colisión entre dos trenes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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