Alawwa rail accident
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In the Alawwa rail accident, three people were killed and 14 injured when a passenger train hit the rear of a stationary Inter-City express train at Alawwa railway station in Sri Lanka
on the17th September 2011 .
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
on the17th September 2011 .