The World - News from June 29, 1988
The death toll in France’s worst-ever suburban train crash rose to 59 after some of the survivors pulled out of the twisted remains of two commuter trains died in hospitals, officials said. Firemen and police disentangling the wreckage at Paris’ Gare de Lyon station the day after the disaster said 55 bodies had been recovered. Four badly injured survivors later died. More than 40 others were injured when a runaway train crashed into a second train waiting to leave the station. Brake failure was blamed.
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