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The Queen of the Sea (Sinhala: Samudradevi) was a train operating between Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the southern resort town of Galle. On Sunday, December 26, 2004, during both the Christmas holiday weekend and a Buddhist full moon holiday, it was particularly full when it left Colombo shortly after 9 a.m. with around 1,700 passengers on board. The route of the train runs along the coast of Sri Lanka, but at Telwatta the line is about 200m inland. a resource to look at current viewpoints Categories: Indo-Aryan languages | Languages of Sri Lanka | Wikipedia cleanup | Language stubs ...
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At this point in its journey, the train was overwhelmed by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, estimated to be 6m high. The train was derailed and its carriages filled with water. According to the Sri Lankan authorities, only a few dozen people on the train survived, making this by far the world's worst railway accident (the previous record being a 1981 accident in Bihar, India, when about 800 people were killed when a train was blown off a bridge by a cyclone). The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ...
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Double counting
Perhaps, to avoid misleading the statistics, this accident should not be mentioned as a train accident, but should be counted as a tsunami accident.
Sources - Steele, Jonathan. "One train, more than 1,700 dead." The Guardian. December 29, 2004. [1] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1380501,00.html)
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