Jun 3, 2023, 03:53 PM IST
A triple train crash accident in Odisha's Balasore on June 3, killed over 288 people and injured another 900, after the Coromandel Express and the Bengaluru- Howrah Express derailed.
Here are details of some of the major rail accidents in India in recent years:
August 1995: Two trains collided near New Delhi, killing 358 people. One of the trains had stopped after hitting a cow.
November 1998: Two trains collided in the northern town of Khanna, killing 210 people. The crash happened when a passenger train hit cars that had uncoupled from another train.
August 1999: Two trains collided head-on in the city of Gauhati, killing more than 285 people.
September 2002: An express train traveling from Calcutta to New Delhi jumped its tracks and plunged into a river, killing at least 121 people. The accident happened south of the Bihar state capital of Patna.
October 2005 — A passenger train plunged into a rain-swollen river in southern India, killing at least 111 people. About 100 injured passengers were rescued from coaches that derailed after floods washed away tracks in the town of Veligonda in Andhra Pradesh state.
May 2010: A passenger train derailed and was hit by a cargo train, killing 145 people in West Bengal state. Authorities blamed sabotage by Maoist rebels for the crash.
July 2011: A passenger train jumped tracks near Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, killing 68 people and leaving 239 passengers injured.
November 2016: At least 146 people were killed when a passenger train traveling between the cities of Indore and Patna slid off the tracks. More than 200 people were injured.
October 2018: A train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India, killing at least 60 people and injuring dozens more on the outskirts of Amritsar, a city in Punjab state.