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18 Feb 2004 10:03:05 AM |
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WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
Updated: 10:14 AM EST
Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People
Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, AP
TEHRAN, Iran (Feb. 18) -- Runaway train cars carrying fuel, fertilizer and
industrial chemicals derailed and exploded in northeastern Iran on Wednesday,
killing more than 200 people, injuring hundreds more and devastating five
nearby villages, the government news agency said.
Most of the known dead were fire and rescue workers, who died in the blast
hours after the train cars derailed and caught fire.
Homes, largely small mud houses, collapsed from the force of the explosion in
villages near the train tracks. Windows were broken within six miles of the
blast.
Officials in the city of Neyshabur - including the local governor, mayor and
fire chief - were among the dead, along with 182 emergency workers. At least
400 people were reported injured.
''The scale of the devastation is very great, and the damage appears more than
initially thought,'' said Vahid Bakechi, a senior official at Khorasan
Province's Emergency Headquarters.
The 51 freight train cars - hauling sulfur, fuel oil and other industrial
chemicals - caught fire and blew up outside Neyshabur, 400 miles east of
Tehran, IRNA reported.
''The whole city is shocked by this accident. Official vehicles mounted with
loudspeakers are roaming the city, calling for volunteers to donate blood,''
Saeed Kaviani, editor of the local Sobh-e-Neyshabur newspaper, told The
Associated Press by telephone.
Dozens of people remain buried under the rubble of their homes in the villages,
Kaviani said.
The freight cars were waiting at the Abu Muslim train station near Neyshabur
when they were set in motion by ''some vibrations.'' It wasn't clear what the
vibrations were, though Neyshabur is in a region prone to earthquakes.
The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said it had recorded no earthquake
activity in the region.
According to Mohammad Maqdouri, head of the local emergency operations
headquarters, the cars rolled out of the station at 4 a.m.
The train cars, picking up speed and moving without an engine or anyone in
control, overturned when they reached Khayyam, the next stop, starting a blaze.
Maqdouri, speaking on Tehran television, said the cars exploded at 9:37 a.m.,
while firefighters were working at the scene.
Maqdouri said 182 firefighters and rescue workers were among the dead. Earlier
reports on Iranian radio had quoted him as saying 50 to 60 people had died in
the blast.
Bakechi said more than 400 people were injured. Blood supplies were rushed to
the scene and Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guards closed off the
surrounding area fearing more explosions.
Governor Mojtaba Farahmand-Nekou, the city's top political leader, was among
the dead, IRNA reported, quoting unidentified officials at the Khorassan
Province governor-general's office. The report said the head of the city's
energy department also was killed and that the director-general of the
provincial railways was missing.
IRNA quoted local officials as saying most of the casualties were in five
nearby villages that were ''severely damaged.''
Iranian television showed video tape of overturned, blazing wagons, with fire
engulfing the area beyond the railroad and nearby homes. Dozens of people, some
wearing face masks to protect them from smoke, were seen walking around or
trying to put out fires.
The villages of Dehnow and Hashemabad were among those reported damaged. It
wasn't clear if they'd been destroyed or how severe damage was there.
Neyshabur has a population of about 170,000, and is at the center of a region
that grows cotton, fruit and grain. Other industries include carpets, pottery,
leather goods and turquoise.
It became one of Persia's foremost cities in the 400 A.D., a center of culture
with several important colleges. Omar Khayyam, the famous 11th century Persian
poet, was born in Neyshabur and is buried there.
02-18-04 09:51 EST
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| User: "WH" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
20 Feb 2004 07:20:46 PM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:20040218110305.24620.00002201@mb-m13.aol.com...
Updated: 10:14 AM EST
Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People
Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, AP
Where does it mention WMD in this report? Oh you found that yourself?
*****...it was a tragic accident...they move dangerous chemicals by train
in seppoland too.
You need to lighten up a bit...every accident in the world doesn't, and
isin't, caused by WMD, nor does it include them.
What a twat!
WH
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| User: "TonyZ2001" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
21 Feb 2004 11:11:57 PM |
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"WH"
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Where does it mention WMD in this >report?
I guess you missed the very obvious (?)
Anyway, that was quite a huge explosion for a simple train derailment.
Tony
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| User: "WH" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
22 Feb 2004 04:47:15 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
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"WH"
wrote:
Where does it mention WMD in this >report?
I guess you missed the very obvious (?)
What obvious? You added WMD to the title.
Anyway, that was quite a huge explosion for a simple train derailment.
50 derailed carriages in not a "simple" train derailment.
WH
Tony
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| User: "TonyZ2001" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
22 Feb 2004 06:13:39 AM |
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"WH"
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:20040222001157.20229.00000188@mb-m04.aol.com...
"WH"
wrote:
Where does it mention WMD in this >report?
I guess you missed the very obvious (?)
What obvious? You added WMD to the >title.
The QUESION MARK after WMD.
Anyway, that was quite a huge >>explosion for a simple train derailment.
50 derailed carriages in not a "simple" >train derailment.
WH
Show me another train derailment that caused an explosion the size of this one,
one that damaged buildings 6 miles away.
Tony
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| User: "WH" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
22 Feb 2004 08:47:26 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:20040222071339.25780.00000172@mb-m01.aol.com...
"WH"
wrote:
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:20040222001157.20229.00000188@mb-m04.aol.com...
"WH"
wrote:
Where does it mention WMD in this >report?
I guess you missed the very obvious (?)
What obvious? You added WMD to the >title.
The QUESION MARK after WMD.
Anyway, that was quite a huge >>explosion for a simple train
derailment.
50 derailed carriages in not a "simple" >train derailment.
WH
Show me another train derailment that caused an explosion the size of this
one,
one that damaged buildings 6 miles away.
Tony
You sad little paranoid tosser. Every event from accidents to outbreaks of
disease are plots against seppoland to you and /or attempts to produce WMD.
You must live a terrible life looking over your shoulder all the time.
That's what those religious freaks have done to you...the likes of WND and
newsmax...where you read all this *****.
Jeeze man lighten up...relax...it's not all fire and brimstone. There is
actually fun in the world!
WH
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| User: "Graham Cowan" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
29 Feb 2004 01:02:21 PM |
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(TonyZ2001) included in message
news:<20040222071339.25780.00000172@mb-m01.aol.com>...
Show me another train derailment that caused an explosion
the size of this one,
one that damaged buildings 6 miles away.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/archive/ourtown/history/railbombs.html --
... Bill Miller was the public information officer
for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in 1973.
... "Those giant explosions were not bombs," said Miller.
The mushroom clouds that loomed over the area that day and
threw wood and metal 3,000 feet into the air were actually set off
when train cars loaded with liquid propane gas caught fire.
The flames spread, igniting other freight cars carrying paint,
lumber and fertilizer. The Roseville yard was 21 rails wide.
Nearly every car was loaded with cargo.
The explosions blew out windows 5 miles away.
People 100 miles away reported hearing booms ...
So what exploded in Iran is a good bet to have been
one gasoline wagon. Reportedly there were six,
but one (1) would have produced the observed effects.
(If it had fire under it for a few hours,
which was indeed the interval,
and then burst like a milkweed seed pod.)
--- Graham Cowan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.doc --
fireproof fuel, real-car range, no emissions
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| User: "DaarkSyde" |
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| Title: Re: WMD? Iran Train Explosion Kills 200 People Hundreds Injured; Five Villages Devastated |
22 Feb 2004 08:00:34 AM |
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On 22 Feb 2004 12:13:39 GMT, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
Show me another train derailment that caused an explosion the size of this one,
one that damaged buildings 6 miles away.
Tony
Is everything a terrorist plot to you idiot? Get a life pantyboy you
fucking MORON
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