a bomb explodes between Uzunovo and Bogatishchevo, Russia (about 95 miles / 153 km from Moscow), derailing the locomotive and first four passenger cars of the Grozny-Moscow train. Investigators found wires leading from the explosion site to a control panel and hideout about 164 ft (50 m) from the site. June 21 – A southbound passenger train collides with a coal delivery truck near Revadim, about 25 miles south of Tel Aviv; the train was bound for Beersheba when the accident occurred. At least seven people die in the accident and more than 200 are injured. July 7 – Three bombs explode in the London Underground killing at least 35 people. Explosions occur between the Aldgate East and Liverpool Street stations, between King's Cross St Pancras and Russell Square, and at Edgware Road. A further bomb on a bus in Tavistock Square kills 13 people. A statement claiming responsibility is posted to a website known to be operated by associates of Al Qaeda. July 13 – Ghotki rail crash: A passenger train stopped at the railway station at Sarhad, Sindh, near Ghotki in Pakistan, is hit from behind by a train that has missed a signal. The derailed cars are subsequently hit by a third train, resulting in a total of seventeen wrecked train cars, which were carrying over 3,000 passengers. Between 109 and 133 people are killed and many injured. Pakistani railroad officials have called this the worst railroad accident there in 15 years. October 29 – Veligonda rail disaster near the town of Veligonda, south of Hyderabad in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. A flash flood sweeps away a small rail bridge and a "Delta Express" train travelling on it derails at the broken section of the line, killing at least 114 people and injuring over 200. November 29 – In the Kindu rail accident at least 60 people are killed when they are swept off the roof of a train into the river below as the train crosses a bridge in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Deaths January deaths January 23 – John H. Kuehl, editor of Private Varnish magazine, passenger car historian and photographer (b. 1938). February deaths February 12 – Vernon L. Smith, mechanical engineer for Lima Locomotive Works in the 1930s, superintendent of motive power for the Belt Railway of Chicago in the 1970s, and noted railroad author (b. 1912). March deaths March