The prepare crash that killed at least 288 individuals, and injured lots of extra, in India is outstanding even in a rustic with an extended historical past of prepare deaths.
In 2021 alone, there have been greater than 16,000 train-related deaths in India, in keeping with the nation’s National Crime Records Bureau, a determine that features circumstances in which individuals had been struck whereas strolling on tracks or fell out of transferring trains.
Here is a glance at some of the worst crashes in current years.
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The deadliest accident in the historical past of Indian rail is believed to have been in 1981, when a passenger prepare derailed because it was crossing a bridge in the state of Bihar. Its automobiles sank into the Bagmati River, killing an estimated 750 passengers; many our bodies had been by no means recovered.
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In 1999, a crash in West Bengal killed about 285 individuals as two trains collided head-on.
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In 2005, at least two dozen individuals had been killed when a crowded passenger prepare slammed right into a stationary cargo prepare in the western state of Gujarat.
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Scores died when a mail prepare derailed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, east of New Delhi, in 2011.
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In 2016, greater than 100 passengers died in one other Uttar Pradesh derailment.
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In 2018, dozens of individuals had been mowed down by a dashing prepare in the northwestern state of Punjab as they celebrated a Hindu pageant with fireworks.
