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Initial reports stated that 26 people were killed with still around 50 people in the wreckage and another 21 people were severe injured. It was very difficult to find people among the wreckage and debris. On 28 February, two days after the disaster, another six bodies were found in the debris. At the
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had a head-on collision with a passenger train coming from Port Sudan towards
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The disaster happened on Friday 26 February 1965 around 100 kilometres east of
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and it is one of the deadliest railway disaster on the
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