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Rescue workers gather around damaged carriages during search for survivors at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, about 200 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, on June 3, 2023/AFPPix: The collision between three trains which has left at least 288 dead and hundreds injured, is one of the deadliest accidents to befall India's notoriously dangerous rail network.
In the past two decades alone, the country has had at least 13 railway incidents that have left more than 50 people dead, including three caused by deliberate attacks. Prior to Friday's accident, the most recent was in October 2018, when a speeding train ploughed into a crowd watching fireworks during a Hindu festival in the northern city of Amritsar, leaving about 60 dead.- 1981, more than 800 killed -
India's deadliest rail accident took place on June, 6, 1981, when a train derailed while crossing a bridge in eastern Bihar and plunged into the river below, killing between 800 and 1,000 people.On August 20, 1995, 305 were killed and 344 injured in a collision between two trains at Ferozabad, near Agra in the north.On August 2, 1999, 285 people were killed and 312 injured in a collision between two trains in Gaisal in the eastern state of West Bengal.
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