&quot;You could not help&quot;: Sri Lanka mops up train tragedy
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MITIYAGODA, Sri Lanka : Some 400 bodies are still trapped inside the gnarled train carriages hurled from their tracks, which had been twisted like a mobius strip off the ground by the force of the deadly tsunami.
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Station fire adds to misery for thousands of travellers as bosses admit engineering work 'muddle'
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At least 4,300 people, mostly children and the elderly, were killed and hundreds were missing after giant tsunamis caused the worst ever disaster in Sri Lanka, prompting appeals for international help.
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A head-on collision between two crowded passenger trains in northern India yesterday left at least 30 people dead and 60 injured. Rescue workers scrambled to free trapped passengers shouting for help from
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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At least five people are killed in a suspected suicide attack on the main railway station in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.
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New Delhi -- Railway officials in India say a &quot;communications snag&quot; appears to have been a factor in a deadly train collision Tuesday.
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Inhabitants of war-torn northern Sri Lanka are having difficulty coming to terms with the new tragedy of the Asian tsunami, says the BBC's Frances Harrison.
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The year 2004, already full of turmoil, instability and uncertainty for Sri Lanka, is ending on a tragic note. A year of man-made political quakes is winding up with a nature-made disaster.
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Members of Sri Lanka&#39;s cricket team, who are touring New Zealand, tried desperately to contact their families after tsunamis battered their homeland Sunday, reportedly killing over 1,000 people.
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Organisers of a tsunami relief collection for Sri Lanka appeal for help with transport  after overwhelming donations arrive.
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HELICOPTERS are urgently required in Sri Lanka, with relief workers and supplies unable to reach many parts of the devastated country because of the collapse of the local transport system.
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Sri Lanka calls for more international aid for up to a million people displaced by Sunday's tsunami.
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NEW DELHI - India&#39;s Railways Minister Lalu Prasad says the collision of two passenger trains in the northern Punjab state was &quot;nothing less than a brutal murder&quot; rather than an accident.
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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Upul Tharanga and Chamara Kapugedera were forced into a rescue operation for Sri Lanka after a dramatic early collapse at the start of the first cricket Test against New Zealand.
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A suicide bomber attacked a train at Colombo's main railway station Sunday, killing at least 12 and injuring 100 others on the eve of Sri Lanka's independence day celebrations, officials said.