India still mourns train crash deaths. At least four people were killed and several others injured in the derailment of an express train in the northeastern state of Bihar, local media reported on Thursday.
“Four casualties have been confirmed and the rescue operation is underway. Twenty-one wagons were derailed,” Tarun Prakash, managing director of East Central Railway, told the newspaper. Times of India. The ANI news agency also reported four people killed. Media reported that several injured people were taken to hospital, without specifying their number.
A large number of accidents
The train came from the capital New Delhi and was heading to Kamakhya Junction, in the northeastern state of Assam. “Deep condolences for these irreparable losses,” Indian Railways Minister Ashwini Vaisjnaw wrote on the social network X, without providing an official report.
India, which has one of the largest railway networks in the world, has seen a large number of deadly train accidents in its history. However, security has improved in recent years thanks to investments and technological improvements.
In June, a collision between three trains near Balasore, in the state of Odisha (east), left nearly 300 dead and more than a thousand injured, due to a problem in the switching system. . The deadliest accident in the country’s history remains that of June 6, 1981 when, in the state of Bihar (east), seven wagons from a train crossing a bridge fell into the Bagmati River, causing between 800 and 1,000 deaths.