Early on 9 May, a vehicle carrying 16 people home from a wedding at Gorakhpur, 740km east of New Delhi, was hit be a train at a crossing in
In northern Uttar Pradesh. In the accident, 13 people were...
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The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMAR) and three of its employees face prosecution following the 6 July 2013 oil train runaway in Quebec, Canada. The men charged are the driver (the sole crew...
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Eighteen passengers were killed and nearly 100 injured in India on 4 May when the locomotive and four coaches of a Sawantwadi-bound passenger train derailed near Nidi station, about 135km from Mumbai....
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On 7 May, three coaches of the Karakoram Express from Lahore to Karachi derailed near Nawabshah. A woman was killed and at least 20 passengers were reported injured, six critically.
The coaches had...
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On 9 May, six tankcars in a 100-wagon Union Pacific oil train came off the line near La Salle in Colorado. Five remained intact with their contents but one tank ruptured, leaking oil.
The spill was...
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On 28 April, Amtrak's 13-coach Empire Builder express from Chicago to Seattle and Portland derailed three vehicles at a set of points near Bainville in north-eastern Montana. There were 117 passengers...
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On 22 April, a freight train from Kamina in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) derailed about 6km into its journey. It is believed about 200 people were riding illegally on the train, many on the...
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On 1 May, a 22-year-old passenger was killed on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at Chennai Central station - one of the busiest in India - when an explosive device was detonated beneath her seat. A...
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More than 150 people were said to have been hurt on 2 May when a train on the Seoul underground in South Korea ran into the set in front as it was leaving Sangwangsimni station. However, there were no...
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On 30 April, in China's regional capital of Urumqi, according to the Xinhua News Agency, two explosions were detonated at the South Station. At the same time, 'a large group of knife-wielding...
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