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The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused ...
19 January 1985 – Eleven passengers were killed by an LTTE bomb on a Yal Devi train. October 1985 – A freight train from Trincomalee to Colombo was bombed by LTTE. A Class M2 No. 571 locomotive was destroyed. 24 July 1996 – Seventy people died after a train was bombed by LTTE at Dehiwala. 4 December 1996 – LTTE attacked another train on ...
The 2011 Alawwa rail accident, occurred on the evening of Saturday 17 September 2011, when a passenger train, Sri Lanka Railways S11, drove into an observation car at the back of a stationary Intercity Express train near the Alawwa railway station, approximately 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Colombo. [ 1] The accident resulted in the death of five ...
The Sri Lanka Railway Department (more commonly known as Sri Lanka Railways ... 24 July 1996 - The LTTE bombed a train, resulting in 70 civilian deaths at Dehiwala.
9.1–9.3. Depth. 30. Epicenter. Indian Ocean, off the coast of Sumatra. Casualties. 31,229 confirmed dead, 4,093 missing, 21,411 injured. Sri Lanka was one of the countries struck by the tsunami resulting from the Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. On January 3, 2005, Sri Lankan authorities reported 30,000+ confirmed deaths.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Fort railway station bombing was a suicide bombing of a commuter train while it was stopped at the Fort railway station, the main station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 3, 2008. The bombing killed 12 civilians [2] and injured more than 100. [3]
Polgahawela level crossing accident. Coordinates: 07°19′05″N. The Polgahawela level crossing accident was a collision between a bus travelling from Galkiriyagama to Colombo and a train at a level crossing in Yangalmodara, near Polgahawela in Kurunegala district on 27 April 2005 at 8:30 local time, which resulted in the death of 41 people. [1]
In Sri Lanka, the civilian casualties were second only to those in Indonesia, with approximately 35,000 killed. The eastern shores of Sri Lanka were the hardest hit since it faced the epicentre of the earthquake, while the southwestern shores were hit later, but the death toll was just as severe.