A train accident in India on Friday that killed at least 50 people and injured more than 500 is one of the world’s worst rail disasters in a decade, AFP reported.
2023 in Greece
On February 28, 2023, a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki (in the north) killed 57 people. This is the worst train accident Greece has ever seen.
2022 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
On March 10, 2022, a freight train loaded with stowaways derailed in Lualaba province in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 75 people and injuring 125 others.
2021 in Pakistan
On June 7, 2021, at least 63 people were killed when a train derailed and collided with another passenger train in southern Pakistan.
2021 in Taiwan
On April 2, 2021, at least 49 people were killed and 200 injured when a train carrying about 500 passengers collided with a construction truck that slid off an embankment near the coastal city of Hualien in eastern Taiwan.
The accident was Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in decades.
2019 in Pakistan
A fire on a passenger train killed at least 75 people in central Pakistan on October 31, 2019.
Most of the victims were pilgrims on their way to a religious gathering. The cause of the fire was an accidental explosion of gas cylinders.
2018 in India
A train collided with worshipers gathered for a Hindu festival in the northern state of Punjab on October 19, 2018, killing around 60 people and injuring 90. The crowd was on the railway to watch fireworks.
2016 in India
On November 20, 2016, a train carrying nearly 2,000 people derailed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 146 people and injuring nearly 180 others.
14 carriages derailed near the city of Kanpur.
2016 in Cameroon
On October 21, 2016, a train traveling between Yaounde and the port city of Douala derailed near the city of Eseka (central Cameroon), killing 79 people and injuring nearly 600. Investigators said the cause was “speeding.”
2014 in the DRC
A cargo convoy carrying several hundred people derails on April 22, 2014 in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. For a long time, the official death toll was 74 and 163 wounded, but a month later the Congolese government news agency put the death toll at 136.
2013 in Spain
The train derailed at a speed of 179 km/h on a dangerous curve on July 24, 2013, a few kilometers from Santiago de Compostela (northwest). The number of victims: 80 dead and almost 180 wounded.
Source: Hot News
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