A decade of rail disasters

The deaths of at least 500 people in yesterday's collision of two trains in eastern India make it one of the worst rail accidents…

The deaths of at least 500 people in yesterday's collision of two trains in eastern India make it one of the worst rail accidents on record.

The following are some of the worst train disasters of the last decade.

July 1988: More than 100 people killed in southern India when a train plunges into a lake.

Jan 1989: At least 135 killed when two express trains collide near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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June 1989: 575 killed and 623 injured in the Ural mountains, Soviet Union, when two passenger trains are engulfed in an explosion from a leaking gas pipeline.

Aug 1989: At least 104 die when a train crashes in northern Mexico, sending two carriages plunging into a river.

Jan 1990: Passenger express crashes into stationary train in southern Pakistan, killing 307.

April 1990: At least 100 killed when a train catches fire in the north Indian state of Bihar.

March 1991: Train breaks down in northern Mozambique, rolls downhill and crashes into station, killing 109.

Sept 1991: 100 killed in Congo when two carriages of a train fall into a ravine after a collision with a freight train.

Dec 1994: At least 102 killed in Burma when a train derails as it descends hill.

Jan 1995: At least 100 die in Bangladesh when a passenger train slams into another train at a station in the Dinajpur district.

Aug 1995: At least 350 killed in India when two trains collide 200 km from Delhi.

Oct 1995: About 300 killed when an underground train catches fire in the Azerbaijan capital Baku.

March 1997: A Pakistan express crashes into buffers killing at least 128.

Feb 1998: Two tanker trains crash in Cameroon killing at least 200.

June 1998: 101 killed when an express train crashes near the German town of Eschede.

Nov 1998: At least 201 die in India when passenger train rams into another in Punjab.