Two Train Derailments Kill 65, Injure 250 in India
Derailed Train
Two terrible train accidents happened on Sunday in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, causing the deaths of 65 people, and leaving more than 250 injured.
The first accident was produced by the derailment of fifteen carriages and the engine of the Kalka Mail train heading toward New Dehli.
The accident happened 120 km south of the city of Lucknow, and it took the entire night for the emergency service to free people trapped in the wreckage of the damaged carriages.
Derailed Train
All 65 fatalities were produced in this accident, and 200 people were committed to the hospitals for treatment. Authorities have launched an investigation to assess the causes that led to it.
From what the televisions said, the driver of the train applied the locomotives emergency brakes as the train was running at more than 100 km per hour.
50 people were injured in the second accident which happened in the state of Assam, as six coaches of Guwahati-Puri Express derailed after a suspected blast.
India has the oldest railways in Asia, which carry some 15 million people each day on 11,000 trains. For that reason fatalities happened very often on the Indian railways. Indian railways form a network that covers 63,000 kilometers of the huge country.
