Worst train disaster
- Who
- Queen of the Sea
- What
- 1500 people
- Where
- Sri Lanka (Telwatta,)
- When
- 26 December 2004
Although no official death toll is available, at least 800 and possibly as many as 1,500 people were killed when a packed passenger train, called Queen of the Sea, was swept off its tracks near the Sri Lankan village of Telwatta by the tsunami of 26 December 2004.