UK News 07-10-1999 Many More Still Feared Dead in Paddington Crash who: Many more feared dead what: where: PADDINGTON when: Yesterday snippet: Tuesday`s rail crash still dominates the headlines. "THE final death toll in the Paddington rail disaster could reach 170," reports The Express. "Around 100 people are still unaccounted for, in addition to the 70 confirmed missing. Rescuers knee deep in ash have so far recovered 28 bodies from the mangled carriages which became a furnace reaching 1,000C." "Emergency services have yet to search carriage H, the first-class compartment closest to the front of the train," reports The Times. "Police believe it may contain the remains of scores of bodies but that they will have been burnt beyond recognition or recovery in the inferno that followed the crash." [... more]

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