- Title: Azerbaijan: Underground Railway Fire
- Date: 29th October 1995
- Summary: Three hundred people were feared dead and at least 140 injured when an underground railway train caught fire in Azerbaijan's capital Baku and rescue workers said on October 29 the toll could rise. Police suggested a spark from high voltage cables had started the fire. But a Moscow radio station quoted sources in Baku as saying sabotage had not been ruled out following two bomb attacks on the underground in the past 18 months. Witnesses said there was panic in the train when it came to a halt in a tunnel between the Ulduz and Narimanov underground stations in central Baku and smoke began to pour into the carriages. Police said the dead included 28 children, 126 women and 135 men. One rescue worker said smoke had initially been so thick that it had been impossible to enter the tunnel.
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- Location: AZERBAIJAN CIS BAKU
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