1953 Col des Nuages derailment

Railway accident caused by sabotage March 2025 Col des Nuages derailment 24 June 1953 Eastern French Indochina Bombing Over 100 The Col des Nuages derailment was a train derailment that occurred in eastern French Indochina, in modern-day Vietnam, on 24 June 1953, during the First Indochina War. Railway officials announced the day after that "about 100 or more" were killed when a passenger train plunged 50 feet through a sabotaged viaduct.Playground News 1953 8 Indochina Rail Crash Kills 100Haine 1993 142, 168 Two locomotives and 18 cars crashed down in a ravine at the Col des Nuages (Pass of the Clouds, known now as the Hai Van Pass), a mountain pass on the route between the ancient Vietnamese capital of Huế and the port of Tourane (Đà Nẵng). The pass had frequently been the scene of attacks by the communist-directed Viet Minh rebels. Officials said that a strong explosive charge detonated just as the train arrived at the viaduct, tumbling a 25-foot span into the ravine. See also Railway accidents in Vietnam References Fort Walton Beach, Florida Indochina Rail Crash Kills 100 Playground News 25 June 1953 8 22 Railroad wrecks Edgar A. Haine Associated University Presses 1993 0-8453-4844-2 Britannica book of the year https://archive.org/details/britannicabookof00yust registration Franklin Henry Hooper Walter Yust Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. 1954 Vietnam Category:Railway accidents in 1953 Category:Derailments in Vietnam Category:1953 in Vietnam Category:1953 disasters in Vietnam Category:History of Da Nang Category:History of Huế Category:Bridge disasters in Vietnam 1953 Col des Nuages derailment Category:Bridge disasters caused by warfare Category:War crimes in the First Indochina War Category:June 1953 in Asia Category:Terrorist incidents in Vietnam Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in 1953 Category:1953 mass murders Category:20th-century mass murders in Vietnam Category:1953 explosions Category:Explosions in Vietnam Category:Improvised explosive device bombings in the 1950s Category:Nationalist terrorist incidents in the 1950s