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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August 1999: On August 2, 1999, two trains carrying about 2,500 people collided near Calcutta, leading to the deaths of at least 285 people.  (PTI (Representative Image))

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October 2005: At least 77 people were killed when several coaches of a passenger train derailed near the town of Valigonda in Andhra Pradesh.  (PTI (Representative Image))

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July 2011: Around 70 people were killed and over 300 injured when a mail train derailed in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh.  (HT Photo (Representative Image))

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November 2016: Some 146 people were killed and more than 200 injured after an express train derailed near Pukhrayan, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.  (REUTERS (Representative Image))

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July 2011: Around 70 people were killed and over 300 injured when a mail train derailed in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh.  (HT Photo (Representative Image))

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January 2017: At least 41 people were killed after several coaches of a passenger train went off the rails in southern Andhra Pradesh state.  (PTI (Representative Image))

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October 2018: The most recent accident before the latest one was in October 2018 where a commuter train ran through a crowd gathered on the tracks for a festival in northern India's Amritsar city. It killed at least 59 people and injured 57. (File Photo (Representative Image))