The World - News from June 12, 1988

The death toll in the explosion aboard a freight train near the Soviet city of Gorky on June 5 has risen to 100, with 200 people still hospitalized, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported. The paper said gross negligence was responsible for the blast on three cars loaded with industrial chemicals. Pravda said some people were still missing and 700 families had been left homeless by the blast. It also said chemicals, which should not have been put together under any conditions, were loaded into the rail cars and the loading regulations grossly violated.