What the records say
- When
- 11 Jul 1978
- Kind
- Road accident
- Coordinates
- 40.60° N, 0.57° E
- Description
- traffic accident
- Deaths
- 243
- Injured
- 300
- Cause
- traffic collision
6 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 “At least 217 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in Costa Daurada, Spain”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tanklastzugunglück von Los Alfaques”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “catastrophe de Los Alfaques”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en San Carlos de la Rápita (España) sucede el accidente de los Alfaques, con 217 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “西班牙加泰罗尼亚塔拉戈纳省一运载工业用煤气的卡车在阿尔卡纳尔圣卡罗迪拉休闲露营区发生爆炸,引起地中海海岸一处游览营地起火,217人丧生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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