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India's Deadliest Rail Accidents

by Reuters

   Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in recent
   decades in India, where a railway official said at least 275 people
   were killed in a train crash in eastern state of Odisha on Friday.

   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
   200 km (125 miles) from Delhi.

   August 1999 - Two trains collide near Calcutta, leading to the deaths
   of at least 285 people.

   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 over 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.