カテゴリー: Train crashes
Crane in use on high-speed rail project hits passing train, causing it to derailAt least 28 people in Thailand have been killed and scores injured after a crane collapsed on to a passenger train and derailed it, officials said.Footage from the scene ve…
The rear-end collision happened in the Chinese capital, which has been hit by snow storms in recent daysAn evening rush-hour accident on the Beijing metro left 102 people with fractures after a rear-end collision on an above-ground section of tracks, s…
Thirty people reported dead and more than 90 injured after Rawalpindi-bound express overturnsA train has derailed in southern Pakistan, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90.Ten carriages of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, …
Workers charged with culpable homicide and destruction of evidence after one of country’s deadliest rail accidents Three men have been arrested in India over a triple-train collision that killed nearly 300 people last month, one of the worst rail accid…
Six days after the tragedy, the death toll stands at 288. Here are just a few of the victims’ storiesStretching 40,000 miles, India’s train lines are often described as the pulsing arteries of the country, carrying life, work and opportunity from the i…
Ministers accused of trying to shift blame for Friday’s disaster in which 275 people diedPolice in the Indian state of Odisha have registered a criminal case of “death by negligence” relating to the train crash on Friday that killed 275 people, as crit…
India’s deadliest train crash in more 20 years involved two passenger trains and a stationary freight trainAs rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after India’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, focus turned to what might have cau…
Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond recognitionAs the Coromandel Express train left Shalimar station at 3.20pm on Friday, its carriages were packed to the rafters with migrant la…
Drone footage showed authorities clearing up the wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in India’s eastern Odisha state, killing more than 200 people. India’s railways minister said the train crash was caused by an error in electronic signals t…
Train was diverted on to wrong tracks, says railways minister as efforts to clear wreckage continueIndia’s railways minister has said the country’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades was caused by an error in electronic signals that sent a …
In the past 20 years, there have been at least 13 train crashes that have killed more than 50 people, some caused deliberatelyThe train collision that has left at least 288 dead and hundreds injured is one of the deadliest accidents on India’s notoriou…
Though the number of railway accidents has come down in the past few years, derailment remains the main causeThere is no railway system quite like the Indian railways. Trains remain an essential lifeline in India, the world’s most populous country of 1…
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has visited the site of a train crash that killed hundreds of people in the eastern state of Odisha. Footage aired on Indian news channels showed Modi arriving at the scene on Saturday, which was still crowded wit…
Relatives tell of agony of searching for survivors among what one called ‘heaps of bodies’ as rescue activities draw to a closeThe carriages from three trains sat piled high in an entangled wreck. Some lay sideways, while others had been thrown so high…
Rescue operation under way with death toll expected to rise in India’s worst rail disaster in more than 20 years‘Wailing for help’: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horrorAt least 288 people have been killed and 803 injured after two…