Re: [QLD] EMU set on fire by passenger

["Dean Stalker" <dstalker@NOSPAMdingoblue.net.au>]

"Douglas O'Neill" <dioneill75@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> Greetings All
>
> Some interesting story that I heard on the Channel 7 QLD news on Saturday
> evening 5/5/01.
>
> An EMU was passing through Bowen Hills when a QR employee on board
witnessed
> a passenger smoking.  The passenger apparently became violent and set fire
> at one end of the train (I'm not sure which end it was).
>
> Estimated damage (according to the news report) is close to $1 million.
>
> Can anyone confirm exactly what happened?

hmm ... stories keep changing. Guess we won't know until QR issues an
official statement.

> Cheers
> Douglas O'Neill
> Townsville, North QLD
> dioneill75@one.net.au



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