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Eight killed, 27 injured, in two separate train accidents in India
Indian Railways is one of the world's largest railway networks, criss-crossing the country from north to south and carrying over 23 million passengers daily. However, train accidents are common in India, where much of the railway equipment is out of date. Some six major train accidents have ...
Nearly 300 killed in one of India's deadliest train accidents Footage from the accident site showed bodies lined up on tracks and the injured being shifted to hospitals while rescuers desperately looked through the overturned and jumbled metal train compartments. ...
While accidents are relatively common on India’s sprawling rail network, Friday’s was among the deadliest in recent years. In 2016, 146 people were killed when a train slid off tracks in eastern India. Sorry, we are not accepting comments on this article....
Train accidents are common in India. Experts blame the outdated infrastructure for most of the accidents. The Railway Ministry has announced compensation of 2,937 U.S. dollars to the kins of each deceased in the accident and 734 dollars to the injured. Besides, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh...
Officials had closed off railway crossings on the train's path to avoid accidents. Wooden blocks were then placed on the tracks to reduce the speed of the train and, eventually, they brought it to a stop. This is the second such incident in India. In 2018,about 1,000 passengers had a...
【4】Notwithstanding this disaster, rail travel is not especially dangerous in India, where some 20m people take a train every day. Of the roughly 25,000who died in train-related accidents every year before thepandemic(a number that had changed little in a decade), most were run over or ...
introduced speed restrictions on some routes that are designated elephant corridors. It was unclear whether this latest accident occurred in one of these zones. But the interventions have not stopped accidents. Five elephants were killed in December in a train collision near a tea plantation in ...
By putting it into practice, the Indian Railways hopes to improve train safety, reduce the possibility of accidents, and ensure the welfare of Read more Highlights of Indian Railway Budget 2024 railrecipe Food in Train, Indian Railways, Travel Updates Every year, our honorable Finance Minister ...