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| | Tuesday, 17 October, 2000, 17:15 GMT 18:15 UK In pictures: The crash site Four people are dead after a high speed passenger train carrying about 200 people derailed north of London.   The 12.10 GNER service from King's Cross to Leeds skidded off the tracks south of Hatfield  The train was travelling at more than 100mph  Four people were killed and 33 taken to hospital  The roof of the buffet car was ripped off in the accident  An investigation is under way - police have ruled out an explosion  Uninjured survivors were taken to a conference centre at the nearby University of Hatfield  Survivors Doris Parker, 78, and her husband Fred, 88, of Eltham, south-east London were taken to hospital | |
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