2 Die in Russian Train Fire
<i> Reuters</i>
MOSCOW —
A train carrying 35 tanks of crude oil went off the rails, overturned and caught fire in Siberia on Sunday, killing the driver and his assistant, Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency said. The train burned for five hours near the city of Chita, about 125 miles north of the Mongolian border.
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