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2004 Sri Lanka tsunami-rail disaster

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Peraliya Train Disaster | The world's worst train disaster | Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka Tsunami | National Geographic

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Remembering the TSUNAMI train in Sri Lanka

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2004 Sri Lanka Tsunami (English)

The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami-rail disaster is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with probably 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused over 30,000 reported deaths and billions of rupees in property damage in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka.