Global Courant
NEW DELHI — A collision between two passenger trains in Odisha on Friday killed at least 207 people and injured 900, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state.
Here are details of some of India’s deadliest rail accidents in recent decades:
June 1981: At least 800 people die when seven rear carriages of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track during a cyclone and fall into a river.
July 1988: An express train goes off the rails and plunges into a monsoon-swollen lake near Quilon in South India, killing at least 106 people.
August 1995 – At least 350 people die in a collision of two trains 200 km from Delhi.
August 1999 – Two trains collide near Calcutta, leading to the deaths of at least 285 people.
