1995 Subway Accident: "Mothers Were Lying on Their Children, Dead. They Certainly Wanted to Protect Them"

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At least 289 subway passengers, but perhaps up to 337 died in a catastrophic fire in Azerbaijan's capital Baku on October 28, 1995. The train stopped in the tunnel as a disaster.

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Thirty years ago, on October 28, 1995, the worst metro accident of all time occurred: a fire broke out in a tunnel between two stations on a train of the Baku underground railway in the Azerbaijani capital, killing 289 people and injuring 270 others or causing smoke inhalation. The post Did You Know? The worst metro accident of all time occurred 30 years ago was first published on Most Hír.