Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Switch error costs 210 lives in rail disaster Winnipeg free january is fran apr Heaters Karachi at least 210 people were killed and about 700 injured when an overcrowded 16car Passen Ger train that was switched on to the wrong track struck a freight train standing in a Village station Early officials the which occurred shortly after Midnight wednesday while most of the passengers were was Pakistan worst train crushed Rall cars soldiers with acetylene torches Cut into the crushed railway cars to Rescue survivors and recover television showed rows of bodies wrapped in blankets near the wreck the locomotive was overturned and several cars were crushed or ripped baggage and debris were strewn near the officials at the scene said 210 people were known the Engineer of the passenger Pyara he was quoted As saying he tried unsuccessfully to Brake his train after spotting the standing a Pakistan railways official said the Acci Dent apparently was a switchman fault for putting the two trains on the same the passenger train Zakaria a named for a Muslim was on an 800kilometre overnight run South from Multan to Karachi with Many More passengers than its said Muktar Ahmad regional traffic offi cer for Pakistan railways at Suk 360 Kilometres North of Kara when it approached Sangi Village i Singh which it was supposed to an improperly set switch threw it on to a siding where an empty 67car freight train was he Abassi said the passenger train was travelling at least 56 when it hit the and the result was the worst rail Accident in Paki stans Abassi said the passenger train Engineer had no Chance to it was apparently a lineman switchman who put the passenger train on the same the official the first three built to hold 88 passengers were devastated and the next two were badly a Abassi the last eight of the 11 other cars remained on the track and later were towed to Kara most of the dead were i the first three cars and Many passengers in the next two were seriously officials medical workers said hundreds of people went to Sangi and Shukkur to passenger train engine lies overturned after smashing into standing freight killing 210 and injuring donate blood i response to an a peal on Pakistan prime minister Binazir Bhutto expressed her deep sense of Shock and said a statement reported by the official associated press of the prime minister offered her the Hudson Bay company travelling fur Sale has arrived at Olin Winnipeg downtown store 25 to 40 off every fur jacket and accessories the latest looks at fabulous prices from Canadas oldest furrier celebrate the new year treat yourself to a new fur coat come see our travelling fur collection is truly outstanding choose from ranches Fox and much More you can buy with because with 319 years of experience behind the Hudson Bay company is Canadas oldest whatever your fur is part of the cards Are in your favour 5 great ways to make shopping Al the Bay More thu 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Are the main ethnic groups in Southern the Shi loks live mainly in the Southern upper Nile whose Northern Border is about 50 kilo metres South of Elg Ebelein where the killings took place eight Days Elg Ebelein is 350 Kilometres South of Khartoum in the White Nile where Many southerners have settled indecent years after escaping famine and fighting be tween troops and the rebel Sudan Peoples liberation a police statement broadcast yesterday on Omdurman state radio said a total of 186 people were killed in the which it said were sparked by an isolated the Clandestine radio of the fighting in the Nonmus Lim South since said the killings were carried out by Arab militiamen recruited and armed by the govern which it accused of complicit the diplomats and Relief citing reports from the said the clashes began when a Southern sudanese farm labourer killed his mus Lim apparently they had been arguing Over the length of the Christmas vacation for Christian la borers from the several truckloads of armed arabs went to a Shantytown housing the workers and their families and began to set their shacks those who escaped the fires were shot by arabs surrounding the the diplomats the sudanese police statement said army troops and police officers were sent to the area to restore order and several arrests were a senior government official said in Khartoum on wednesday that peace talks Between Arab and South Ern elders had begun under local government the provinces of White Blue South Darfur and South Ordo stretching across Sudan from the ethiopian Border in the East to Chad in the have in recent years seen a series of massacres of southerners made refugees by the civil War in Arab militias fighting the rebels on behalf of the government Are Active in the four provinces diplomats Are responsible for the cok snorting Mother gets 18month sentence a a woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for passing co Caine to her baby through the umbilical apparently the first to be imprisoned for that reason in Beverly of Pensacola was sentenced wednesday after she pleaded no contest to delivery of cocaine and contributing to the delinquency of a judge Frank Bell also ordered her to serve concurrent 18month terms in two unrelated cases involving Petty theft and several similar counts to which she pleaded no she also will serve three years police said Black admitted to them she twice snorted cocaine in the weeks before her son was born last she said she hoped the drug would induce although she knew it could harm the officers authorities Are using a Law usually aimed at drug arguing that mothers also Are guilty if the drug passes from their bodies to their babies after delivery and before the umbilical cords Are another woman is believed to be the first in Florida and one of the first in the United states convicted of delivering cocaine to her but she was placed on 15 years several others also have been who also had three other asked the judge for a last Chance to 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