Warsaw: Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into how a train ended up on the wrong tracks after two engines collided head on late on Saturday, killing 15 people and leaving 54 in hospitals.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the accident the most tragic train catastrophe in Poland in recent years after visiting the site in the early hours of Sunday.
He said it was too soon to say what had caused the accident.
Several of the passengers were foreigners, including people from Ukraine, Spain and France, but none of them appeared to be among the dead or badly injured, Tusk said....
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02:17 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Buenos Aires: A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina's worst rail accident in more than 30 years, officials said. Passengers told of chaos and panic as the impact of the collision propelled the second train car into the first carriage, trapping dozens of people as others looked on from...
01:27 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Beijing: China's media are curbing combative reporting of a high-speed train disaster after what observers said were orders from the ruling Communist Party's propaganda arm to stop criticism that has echoed public outrage over the tragedy. For a week, many Chinese newspapers defied censorship orders and pursued unusually aggressive reporting of the crash on July 23 that killed at least 40 people on two high-speed trains, a technology the government...
09:16 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Beijing: A toddler was rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China killed at least 35 people and injured more than 190 others, state media reported. Xinhua News Agency said the unconscious child was found early Sunday evening while rescuers were clearing one of the train cars just as the cleanup efforts were almost completed. It cited an unnamed firefighter in its report on...
04:47 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Beijing: Facing media fury over the deadly bullet train crash that left 35 people dead and 192 wounded, Chinese Railway has promised transparent probe while admitting that there are several missing people still to be accounted for. The ministry spokesman Wang Yongping found it difficult to handle the volley of questions by the media that was fired up by critical comments by microbloggers at an unlike press conference Chinese officials...
03:12 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Beijing: China's first bullet train crash, less than a month after the launch of Beijing-Shanghai train with much fanfare may dash Beijing's multi-billion dollar plans to expand high speed train network at home besides making the technology a mainstay of its future exports. Chinese government went all out to ensure massive publicity to the June 30 launch of the Beijing-Shanghai fast train which covered the distance of over 1300 km...
02:36 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Beijing: A bullet train crashed into another high-speed train that had stalled after being struck by lightning in eastern China, causing four carriages to fall off a viaduct and killing at least 35 people and injuring 191 others, state media and an official said on Sunday. It was the first derailment on China's high-speed rail network since the country launched bullet trains in 2007 with a top speed of 155...
08:53 AM, Jul 24, 2011
Johannesburg: A train crash injured more than 640 passengers on Thursday night in South Africa's Soweto township outside Johannesburg, local media reported, citing emergency services. South African news agency SAPA said two of the injured were in a critical condition. It said a train had apparently collided with a stationary one in Soweto, the country's biggest black township. Commuter train accidents are a regular occurrence in South Africa. In 2009...
02:29 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: The year of 2010 is clearly not a good year for the Indian Railways with the accident at the Badarwas railway station, near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh being the latest mishap in a series of fatal train accidents this past year. Just three months ago on 19th July, the Uttarbanga Express collided into the Vananchal Express at Sainthia in West Bengal, killing 66 people as 90 passengers were...
10:30 AM, Sep 20, 2010
New Delhi: At least 21 people were killed and over 50 injured on Monday as a goods train collided with the Indore-Gwalior-Bhind Intercity Express at the Badarwas railway station, near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh. The Intercity Express was stationary at Badarwas station when the speeding cargo train rammed into it at 5:00 am Monday morning. The CPRO of West Central Railways Piyush Mathur told CNN-IBN that the "prima facie reason...
08:40 AM, Sep 20, 2010
A breathalyser test on the driver and assistant driver of the ill-fated Uttarbanga Exp did not show any trace of alcohol. ...
07:48 PM, Jul 22, 2010
The Railway Minister started the blame game by calling the Sainthia accident a 'scientific killing' of the Left. ...
10:09 PM, Jul 21, 2010
She also claimed that CPI-M activists were planting cockroaches in the food served by Railways. ...
06:11 PM, Jul 21, 2010
The mystery behind Bengal train crash has raised many unanswered questions. Experts discuss the issue on CNN-IBN. ...
10:47 PM, Jul 20, 2010
Railway Board Chairman Vivek Sahay calls the collision between Uttarbanga Express and Vananchal Express as intriguing. ...
09:23 PM, Jul 20, 2010
Madhab Chandra Dey daughters demanded a high level enquiry into the accident to unearth the truth. ...
06:00 PM, Jul 20, 2010
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11:31 PM, Jul 19, 2010
The Opposition on Monday said Mamata's preoccupation with state politics was hurting the running of the nation's lifeline. ...
11:17 PM, Jul 19, 2010
Mamata Banerjee has often been criticised for running the Railways Ministry out of Kolkata. ...
09:12 PM, Jul 19, 2010
Golu Mishra from Dhanbad was found inside the unreserved and mangled compartment of the Vananchal Express. ...
08:29 PM, Jul 19, 2010
