The 2012 Myanmar train crash occurred on 9 November 2012 near
Kantbalu in central
Burma. A train travelling from
Mandalay to
Myitkyina and which included seven wagons containing
petrol and two containing
diesel fuel derailed and burnt. At least 27 people were killed and more than 80 were injured; according to the
Information Ministry, many had been trying to collect spilt fuel.[1]