India's worst rail accidents before the latest tragedy
Here are some of the deadliest rail accidents in recent decades in India.
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The recent tragic train accident in Odisha resulted in the loss of at least 275 lives and left over 1000 individuals injured. The country had witnessed at least 13 railway accidents in the past two decades that killed more than 50 people. Here's a list of India's worst train tragedies before the latest Balasore incident. (File Photo (Representative Image))
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June 1981: On June 6, 1981, at least 800 people were killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train were blown off the track and fell into a river in Bihar. (AFP (Representative Image))
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July 1988: An express train travelling from Bangalore to Thiruvananthapuram Central derailed on the Peruman bridge over Ashtamudi Lake in Kerala and plunged into the water, killing at least 106 people. (ANI (Representative Image))
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August 1995: At least 350 people were killed when two trains collided 200 km (125 miles) from the capital on the Delhi-Kanpur section of India's Northern Railway. This rail disaster occurred on August 20, 1995, near Firozabad. (PTI (Representative Image))
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