SEOUL,SOUTH KOREA: An overcrowded passenger train toppled off caved in tracks Sunday, killing at least 73 people and injuring about 120 in the worst train crash in South Korean history, reports said. The collapse of rain soaked ground followed blasting work for a tunnel for electric cables under the track in the southern city of Pusan, said Cho Kijung, a spokesman for Korea Electric Power Corp. Police were questioning company officials about the work.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 2, 1993
