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Article: Train collision in N. Korea reportedly causes around 3,000 casualties.
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- China Business News
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- April 23, 2004
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Train collision in N. Korea reportedly causes around 3,000 casualties
Shanghai. April 23. INTERFAX-CHINA - The South Korean government has confirmed that two trains loaded with oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) collided in the Ryongchon railway station near the border of North Korea and China at around 1 p.m. on April 22, causing 3,000 killed or injured, according to a report by China Radio International.
Nicholas Bonner, Director of Koryo Tours, which has specialized in travel to North Korea since 1993, told Interfax that the train line is not blocked, as the evening train from Pyonyang had arrived in Beijing. "I can only speculate, but it seems ...