India to probe railway collision that killed eight, injured dozens

Record ID: 1824124

  • Title: India to probe railway collision that killed eight, injured dozens
  • Date: 18th June 2024
  • Summary: DARJEELING, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (JUNE 18, 2024) (ANI- No use India) (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE SHOWING ACCIDENT SITE MANGLED TRAIN COMPARTMENTS/DAMAGED PARTS SCATTERED DARJEELING, WEST BENGAL, INDIA (JUNE 18, 2024) (ANI- No use India) SECURITY PERSONNEL AND LOCALS GATHERED AT ACCIDENT SITE VARIOUS OF MANGLED TRAIN COMPARTMENT INDIAN RAILWAY OFFICIALS INSPECTING ACCIDENT SITE MANG
  • Embargoed: 2nd July 2024 11:59
  • Keywords: Darjeeling India Phansidewa Sealdah Siliguri West Bengal accident collision commissioner death derailed disaster drone expressway feared dead freight goods injured operation passenger railways rescue restoration safety tracks train village
  • Location: DARJEELING, SILIGURI, SEALDAH, WEST BENGAL, INDIA
  • City: DARJEELING, SILIGURI, SEALDAH, WEST BENGAL, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Ground Accidents/Collisions,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA001KF0RDCF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:India will launch an investigation on Tuesday (June 18) into a train collision that killed eight people in the state of West Bengal and injured more than 50, a day after a top railway official blamed the incident on driver error.
    A freight train rammed into a passenger train on Monday (June 17) heading for the state capital of Kolkata from the northeastern state of Tripura.
    The investigation by India's top railway safety official will start on Tuesday (June 18), Janak Kumar Garg, Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety North East Frontier said.
    India's opposition leaders criticised the railway safety record of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, attributing it to negligence.
    The incident came a little over a year after about 288 people were killed in one of India's worst rail crashes in the neighbouring state of Odisha, caused by a signalling error.
    State-run Indian Railways, notorious for overcrowding, is the world's fourth largest train network, carrying 13 million people a day, along with nearly 1.5 billion tonnes of freight in 2022.
    Top railway official Jaya Varma Sinha, who chairs India's railway board, called for reducing human error, adding that an anti-collision system was being set up nationwide.
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