The World - News from June 9, 1988
The official toll from Saturday’s explosion aboard a Soviet freight train was put at 83 killed, 228 injured and 11 missing. Deputy Premier Gennady G. Vedernikov, sent to investigate the disaster, spoke on Soviet television from the scene of the explosion in the town of Arzamas. He added that 2,000 people had been made homeless by the blast. Meanwhile, the official Tass news agency said the explosion may have been caused by abnormally hot weather, although the report did not say how that could occur.
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