More than 280 killed in Odisha train crash: India’s deadliest rail accidents
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NEW DELHI - At least 288 people were killed and hundreds injured
Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in the country in recent decades:
June 1981: At least 800 people are killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track and fall into a river during a cyclone.
July 1988: An express train leaves the rails and plunges into a monsoon-swollen lake near Quilon in southern India, killing at least 106 people.
August 1995: At least 350 people are killed when two trains collide 200km from Delhi.
August 1999: Two trains collide near Kolkata, leading to the deaths of at least 285 people.
A view of a damaged compartment, following the deadly collision of two trains, in Balasore, India.
PHOTO: REUTERS
October 2005: Several coaches of a passenger train derail in southern Andhra Pradesh state, near Velugonda. At least 77 people are killed.
July 2011: Around 70 people are killed and more than 300 injured when a mail train derails in Fatehpur.
November 2016: Some 146 people are killed and more than 200 injured when an express train derails in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
January 2017: At least 41 people are killed after several coaches of a passenger train go off the rails in southern Andhra Pradesh state.
October 2018: A commuter train runs through a crowd gathered on the tracks for a festival in northern India’s Amritsar city, killing at least 59 people and injuring 57. REUTERS
Rescue workers trying to reach trapped victims of a horrific three-train collision near Balasore, about 200km from Bhubaneswar, capital of eastern India’s Odisha state.
PHOTO: AFP
