The World - News from Feb. 2, 1986
At least 39 people were killed and 71 were wounded in the collision of two passenger trains outside the South African city of Durban, officials said. The crash occurred when a train packed with evening commuters going from Durban to the nearby black township of Kwamashu slammed into a stationary train on the same track. Willie Mitchell, railways director for Natal Province, declined to speculate on the cause of the crash and said a board of inquiry would investigate.
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