February 19, 2004

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Employees of Iran Railway Company waits for their coleagues to carry on their damage control operations in front of the wreckage of the train on fire in Dehnow village near Nishabour some 700 kms ( 435 miles) east of Tehran, Wednesday Feb. 18, 2004. 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. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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