The World - News from Jan. 17, 1989

Wailing relatives collected bodies from morgues while others frantically searched mangled wreckage for the missing as the official death toll from Bangladesh’s worst train disaster rose to 135. Officials fear the death toll may reach 200. “Hundreds of people are visiting the morgue every hour trying to find their near and dear ones,” nurse Afroza Begum said. More than 1,000 people were injured when a 10-car express train and a seven-car mail train collided outside the farming village of Maizdi Khan. Nearly 700 people, including President Hussain Mohammed Ershad, have donated blood for the victims.