Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 1:05:44 PM CET
Twelve Dead in French Express Train Fire
Twelve people died from smoke poisoning in a fire on the Paris-Vienna express train near the eastern French city of Nancy early Wednesday, local officials said.
The victims, apparently foreigners, were traveling in two German railways sleeper cars hit by the fire, which Nancy railway staff said they noticed as the train rumbled through on its way from Paris toward Strasbourg.
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