As giant excavators tried to untangle crushed trains on Saturday at the scene of India’s worst rail disaster in decades, a solemn scene was playing out at a small school a few hundred yards away. In humid air filled with the odor of human flesh, relatives went through the harrowing exercise of identifying their loved […]
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India Train Crash: Latest News and Updates
A train crash in eastern India on Friday was the country’s worst rail disaster in two decades, killing more than 280 people and renewing questions about rail safety in a country that has invested heavily in the system in recent years after a long history of deadly crashes. Two passenger trains collided around 7 p.m. […]
At Least 50 Feared Dead in Train Crash in Indian State of Odisha
Two trains derailed in India in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday, Indian news reports said, killing as many as 50 people and injuring hundreds more in an accident that deeply shook the country. Amitabh Sharma, a railroad ministry spokesperson, was quoted by The Times of India as saying that 10 to 12 coaches […]
Anger Mounts in Greece After Deadly Train Crash
After years of pandemic-forced cancellations, Athens last weekend hosted carnival, and scores of Greeks flocked in to celebrate. Vaios Vlachos and his girlfriend, who dressed up as marble busts, were among them before they rushed to catch a night train on Tuesday that would get them home in time for work the next morning. But […]
Greece Train Crash Kills 29
TEMPE, Greece — A passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northern Greece early on Wednesday, killing 29 people and injuring at least 85, officials from Greece’s Fire Service said. Multiple train cars derailed and at least three caught fire after the crash near Tempe, a small town about 235 miles north of […]
Ukraine Helicopter Crash Kills at Least 18, Including Cabinet Minister: Live Updates
The site of the helicopter crash on Wednesday in Brovary, Ukraine, that damaged a kindergarten and a 14-story residential building.Credit…Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA, via Shutterstock A helicopter carrying senior Ukrainian officials crashed on Wednesday in a Kyiv suburb, killing at least 18 people, including Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs and other pivotal figures in the wartime leadership, […]
British Columbia Bus Crash Leaves 4 Dead and Dozens Injured
Four people were killed and dozens of others were injured after a bus rolled over on an “extremely icy” highway in British Columbia on Christmas Eve, the authorities said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the bus crashed around 6 p.m. local time on Highway 97C east of Merritt, about 170 miles northeast of Vancouver. […]