18 February 2004
Kazim Akhbari
Explosion
A train derailed as a result of a collision with another freight car caught fire, setting off explosions.
The freight train cars hauling sulphur, fuel, oil and other industrial chemicals blew up outside the city of Neyshabur. The train cars, moving without an engine or anyone in control, overturned when they reached the Khayyam station. The cars were loaded with petrol, sulphur, fertilizers, cotton. A journalist of the IRNA news agency, who arrived on the crash site after the two trains collided, was among the victims of the tragedy.
