A year after Greece’s worst train disaster, railway safety fears persist
Athens, Greece Reuters After 57 people were killed in Greece’s worst train disaster a year ago, the government promised to fix a system crumbling from decades of neglect. “Trains will resume operations with safety at the maximum possible level,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said weeks after the crash. People release 57 hot-air lanterns in front […]
Greeks strike to mark train crash anniversary, protest low wages
Athens, Greece Reuters Rail services will be halted and ships will remain docked at ports near the capital Athens on Wednesday, as workers walk off the job to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash. A passenger train from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided head-on with a freight train on […]
Bangladesh trains collide, killing 17, wounding scores – police
Dhaka, BangladeshReuters At least 17 people were killed and scores injured on Monday after two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh, police said. A passenger train crashed into a freight train in Bhairab, about 80 kilometres north-east of the capital Dhaka. A general view of derailed compartments of train after two trains collided in Bhairab, about […]
Deadly India rail crash caused by faulty signal connections made during repair
Bhubaneswar, India Reuters Workers repairing a rail-road barrier in India made faulty connections in the automated signalling system on the network, leading to the country’s worst rail disaster in two decades, an official probe has found. The 2nd June crash at Bahanaga Bazar station, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, killed 288 people and injured more […]
Bahanaga Bazar, the rural Indian train station rocked by disaster
Bahanaga Bazar, India Reuters Few trains stop at Bahanaga Bazar, the sleepy, small rural station in the Balasore district of Odisha state where India’s deadliest train accident in more than two decades happened. Three rooms, topped by a corrugated metal roof, and three platforms make up the station, which serves 14 trains daily, more than […]
Over 100 dead bodies remain unclaimed after Indian rail disaster
Balasore, India Reuters Indian authorities made fervent appeals to families on Tuesday to help identify over 100 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after 275 people were killed in the country’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades. The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the […]
India rail crash probe focuses on electronic track management system
New Delhi, India Reuters Investigators are probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned and caused India’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades, railways officials said on Sunday. At least 275 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the tracks and hit […]
India rescue work ends as focus turns to cause of worst train crash in decades
Bahanaga, India Reuters Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some […]
India’s worst train crash in decades kills at least 288
Updated: 6:50am, 4th June, 2023 (AEST)Bhubaneswar, India Reuters At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s accident also […]
At least 207 dead, 900 injured in massive train crash in Odisha, India
Updated: 8:30am (AEST)Bhubaneswar, India Reuters At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in India’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade. The death toll is expected to increase, state Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said in […]