NDTV.com: "At least 13 people were killed and 40 injured when a Gwalior-bound train went off the track and rammed into a railway signal cabin in Datia district today.
The Varanasi-Gwalior Bundelkhand Express left Varanasi on Sunday and passed through Allahabad. When it reached Datia at around 9:15 a.m. (IST) today, six coaches and engine of the train derailed. Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has announced Rs 5 lakh as compensation for the families of those dead.
Accidents on tracks
December 2, 2000 - Howrah Mail travelling from Kolkata to Amritsar rams a Delhi-bound freight train that had been derailed minutes earlier. 44 dead and 140 injured.
May 31, 2001 - Train collides with a bus on an unmanned level crossing about 200 km north of the Uttar Pradesh capital, Lucknow. 31 killed, dozens more injured.
September 9, 2002 - Over 120 persons of the 525 on board died when 14 bogies of the 2301 UP Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express plunged into the Dhawa river.
June 22, 2003 - At least 51 persons died and another 25 were injured when some coaches of the Karwar-Mumbai holiday special train derailed between Rajapur and Vibhavwadi in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra following a heavy landslide.
June 16, 2004 - 14 people were killed and over 100 injured when the Mumbai-bound Matsyagandha Express from Mangalore derailed after it crashed into boulders washed onto the tracks by a mudslide.
(With PTI inputs)
Monday, October 03, 2005
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