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Article: Writethru: At least 7 dead in train collision in Israel, terror attack excluded
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- June 21, 2005
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Writethru: At least 7 dead in train collision in Israel, terror
attack excluded
by Wei Jianhua
JERUSALEM, June 21 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed
and about 190 injured when a passenger train collided with a truck in
central Israel on Tuesday and police said the accident was obviously
not a "terror attack."
The tragedy occurred when a train traveling from the coastal city
of Tel Aviv to the southern town of Beersheba collided with a truck
that had apparently broken down on the tracks, Israel Radio reported.
About 190 were injured, 17 of them critically and 47 moderately as