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A passenger train derailed in northern India (16 photos)
Employees of the railway began clearing the site of the accident derailed a passenger train "Kalka Mail" in northern India after the completion of the rescue operation, during which they found sixty-eight bodies. At least 239 passengers were injured when a train derailed near the station of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh. The disaster occurred on 11 July 2001 and has become one of the worst rail disasters that have occurred in the network already troubled country's railways in recent years.
The accident occurred on Sunday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The train stopped suddenly, and about a dozen cars derailed, destroying each other. Rescue teams and officers of the armed forces of more than twenty-four hours was carried out the rescue operation to locate and extract the dead and wounded from the wreckage. In the photo: a passenger was trapped in the wreckage, found an Indian army officer, and will now be safely evacuated.
Throughout the day, anxious relatives were searching for missing family members. They all flocked to the scene where the bodies, wrapped in white shrouds lay in rows on the ground next to the wrecked train. In the photo: forty years Rani Verma laments the loss of her father in a train accident, being in front of the state mortuary in Fatehpur.
Two Swedish nationals were among those killed. Another Swede was injured. In the photo: the Swede gets help wounded soldiers of the Indian Army.
"I was listening to music on the top shelf, when there was a loud explosion, and then a terrible blow. I jumped up from his seat and hit my head, "said one of the passengers, twenty Subayit Ghosh, received a head injury.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, according to a senior official of the railway department. According to information released by a number of newspapers, the driver slammed on the brakes, because the tracks turned cattle.
Volunteers and army soldiers worked through the night to pull the injured from the shattered twelve cars. Officials said that the train is about one thousand passengers, but the exact number was not known. Photo: Soldiers of the Indian Army pulled out the bodies of victims from the wreckage of a passenger train.
Train "Kalka Mail" heading into the foothills of the Himalayas, from Hauri, station near Calcutta in eastern India. In the photo: the dead bodies lying near the derailed train at the station near Malvan Fatehpur.
Train travel throughout India violated. At least sixty-two trains were directed to other routes, while as many flights were canceled. In the photo: the passengers crowd into a crowded train to the eastern state of Bihar, New Delhi.
India's railway network is one of the largest in the world and carries out transportation of about fourteen million passengers every day. Accidents are frequent disaster, the cause of most of them are poor maintenance and human error. In the photo: the luggage of passengers lies near the crash site at the station Malvan.
Approximately 336 people were killed and 437 were injured of varying severity as a result of railway accidents in India in the period between April 2010 and mid-January 2011, according to official data. Photo: Indian Army officers are looking for dead bodies among the ruins of the train derailed.
Dvadtsatiodnoletny Shabnam weeping over the bodies of his mother and brother, who died during the train wreck.
In addition, about fifty passengers were injured of varying severity as a result of the alleged bomb attack, in which the train derailed in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on Sunday.
Responsibility for the attack has not yet claimed any one military group. However, it is suspected fighters of the National Liberation Army Adivasi.
The accident occurred on Sunday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The train stopped suddenly, and about a dozen cars derailed, destroying each other. Rescue teams and officers of the armed forces of more than twenty-four hours was carried out the rescue operation to locate and extract the dead and wounded from the wreckage. In the photo: a passenger was trapped in the wreckage, found an Indian army officer, and will now be safely evacuated.
Throughout the day, anxious relatives were searching for missing family members. They all flocked to the scene where the bodies, wrapped in white shrouds lay in rows on the ground next to the wrecked train. In the photo: forty years Rani Verma laments the loss of her father in a train accident, being in front of the state mortuary in Fatehpur.
Two Swedish nationals were among those killed. Another Swede was injured. In the photo: the Swede gets help wounded soldiers of the Indian Army.
"I was listening to music on the top shelf, when there was a loud explosion, and then a terrible blow. I jumped up from his seat and hit my head, "said one of the passengers, twenty Subayit Ghosh, received a head injury.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the accident, according to a senior official of the railway department. According to information released by a number of newspapers, the driver slammed on the brakes, because the tracks turned cattle.
Volunteers and army soldiers worked through the night to pull the injured from the shattered twelve cars. Officials said that the train is about one thousand passengers, but the exact number was not known. Photo: Soldiers of the Indian Army pulled out the bodies of victims from the wreckage of a passenger train.
Train "Kalka Mail" heading into the foothills of the Himalayas, from Hauri, station near Calcutta in eastern India. In the photo: the dead bodies lying near the derailed train at the station near Malvan Fatehpur.
Train travel throughout India violated. At least sixty-two trains were directed to other routes, while as many flights were canceled. In the photo: the passengers crowd into a crowded train to the eastern state of Bihar, New Delhi.
India's railway network is one of the largest in the world and carries out transportation of about fourteen million passengers every day. Accidents are frequent disaster, the cause of most of them are poor maintenance and human error. In the photo: the luggage of passengers lies near the crash site at the station Malvan.
Approximately 336 people were killed and 437 were injured of varying severity as a result of railway accidents in India in the period between April 2010 and mid-January 2011, according to official data. Photo: Indian Army officers are looking for dead bodies among the ruins of the train derailed.
Dvadtsatiodnoletny Shabnam weeping over the bodies of his mother and brother, who died during the train wreck.
In addition, about fifty passengers were injured of varying severity as a result of the alleged bomb attack, in which the train derailed in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on Sunday.
Responsibility for the attack has not yet claimed any one military group. However, it is suspected fighters of the National Liberation Army Adivasi.
