Disasters in 1968, page 2

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MINING

November 20 Explosions in a coal mine near Mannington, West Virginia, killed 78 miners. [more information]

NATURAL

January 15 Earthquakes struck western Sicily, Italy, leaving some 80,000 homeless and more than 200 dead.

August 31 and September 1 Earthquakes killed more than 15,000 people in Iran.

RAIL

STRUCTURAL

TRAFFIC

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