Nishapur train disaster

When

18 Feb 2004

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

36.08° N, 58.99° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

295

Injured

460

Cause

explosion

2004 derailment and explosion of a freight train in Khayyam, Iran

The Neishapur train disaster was a large explosion in the village of Khayyam near Nishapur in Iran, on 18 February 2004. Nearly 300 people were killed and the entire village was destroyed when runaway train wagons crashed into the community in the early morning and exploded a few hours later, resulting in Iran's deadliest rail disaster.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A train carrying a convoy of petrol, fertilizer, and sulfur derails and explodes in Nishapur, Iran, killing 300 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в селе Хайям под Нишапуром (Иран) взорвался железнодорожный состав, в результате чего погибли около 300 человек, среди которых несколько крупных политиков”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page