Balvano train disaster

Quando

3 de mar. de 1944

Tipo

Acidente ferroviário

Coordenadas

40.67° N, 15.50° E

Description

train wreck

Deaths

517

Deadliest railway accident in Italian history, in 1944

The Balvano train disaster occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata, when 517 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel. It was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever.

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