European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday. April 5,1989 8 killed 17 injured in train derailment san Severo Italy Dpi a com Muter train derailed Asil entered he Sta Tion in san severe on monday badly damaging sections of the Bui icing Ana leaving eight people dead and 17 injured. The crash look place at 4 15 . When a rain from the Adriatic port of Bari swept into the station Al approximately twice the regulation Speed of in Mph probably because of Brake failure Railroad officials said. Two of the train s eight passenger cars derailed and were catapulted on to the platform severely damaging the station bar. The baggage Deposit room the ticket sales Section and the Stalion Masler s of fice. Firefighters and other rescuers toiled through the night under arc lights to re move the wreckage and search for Vic Tims. By Dawn they concluded there were no More victims to be found but work on Clearing the nibble continued. Six of he eight dead were Railroad employees who were either aboard the train or in the damaged offices at the time of the crash. The other two were a 47-year old building contractor who was a Pas Senger in the train and a 50-year-old Man who was standing on the platform arid was hit by the derailed cars. The dead Railroad employees were inc two engineers of the train inc station master and two of his assistants and an other station employee the regional of fice said. During the nigh a 100-ton Crane arrived to help Clear the train wreckage from the tracks. The crash knocked out the electric Power system at the station but it was restored at 6 a.m., and trains were Able to pass through the station on one of its three tracks. Workers pick through the rubble of Sari Severn s wrecked Railroad station. Namibian peace efforts intensified Windhoek Namibia up South african backed forces operating under virtually Hou a. Supervision Pur sued Swap guerrillas in Northern Namibia tuesday pushing the death loll in four Days of fighting to 190 As Diplo Matic efforts to end the bloodletting and save the territory s Independence plan intensified. Swap guerrilla Leader Sam Nujoma branded in. Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar s report on the fighting of incorrect and one sided and said the situation in Northern Namibia had deteriorated into a full scale As senior . Officials gathered in the angolan capital of Luanda in a fran tic search for a Way to end the fighting Nuj Oroa Runci in Zimbabwe with ambassadors representing the five permanent members of the Security Council. Nujoma told reporters that he asked the diplomats to press the Council on sending the full complement of . Peacekeeping forces to the territory immediately As the first step toward Rostor ing peace i and putting . Security Council Resolution 435 Back on track he denied any Swap guerrillas had entered Namibia since the Independence plan went into effect saturday and rejected Perez de Cuellar s account in which he is reported to have acknowledged that Swap rebels entered Nami Bia from Angola but without hostile in that statement is incorrect because the Secretary general s representatives in Namibia Martty Ahti Saari Only got a. Report from the South african Side and therefore the Secretary general s statement is one sided Nujoma said. Gen. Hans dry or. Northern police commissioner said 190 people had been killed in the four Days of fighting up to 2 . Tuesday along a Iso mile fron of Northern ova Moland the deaths in clude 169 Swap guerrillas and 21 police officers. An additional 62 police offi cers have been wounded and six guerrilla have been captured he said. In was relatively quiet until a couple of hours ago when a Security Branch team was ambushed dry or said the group of 40 Swap guerrillas armed with rocket propelled grenades automatic rifles and a surface to air mis Silc hit the i rec vehicle Convoy injuring one police officer he said. Haiti frees 3 offer failed Pup attempt port a Prince Haiti a the government said tuesday that it freed three military commanders arrested after a failed coup attempt. Mutinous soldiers surrendered control of the Airport and returned to their bar " Racks. Slate television announced that it. Col Himmler Robu. Commander of Fth leopards battalion col. I Hill pc Biam by and col. Sconce Qualo were Given Safe passage to the United Stales Biam by commanded the presidential guard. Robu had been accused of leading sunday s attempt to overthrow it. Gen. Prosper Avril at least four mutinous soldiers were reported killed monday in skirmishes with troops Loyal to Avril s government. Rhu Biamby and a Iisalo were escorted to the Border of the dominican Republic on monday night to get a Light counterfeiting ring cracked Wiesbaden. West Germany West German police have cracked a coun Ter filing ring believed to have printed Rind buried about $2,5 million Worth of $ 100 Bills. A 64-year-old Weil German an escaped counterfeiter is alleged to have led the ring of five people apprehended March 11 by Federal criminal police and criminal police in Saar Bruckn. The group also is suspected of delivering several Hundred thousand dollars in counterfeit Bills in. Canada France and Switzerland police said. The ring s other members Are business men and no prior notice record the group buried the Bills on Jiron crw belonging to one of its members in Saar willing in about 12 Miles Northwest of . Mild quakes shake Naples area Naples Italy
