Taiwan News:
BHUBANESWAR, India, June 3 (Reuters) – The death toll from the collision of two Indian passenger trains in Odisha state has surged to 288 and more than 850 are injured, a state government official told AFP on Saturday, making the rail accident the country’s deadliest in more than two decades.
Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, also said that “rescue work is still going on” and there were “a lot of serious injuries”, according to AFP.
Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said on Twitter that over 200 ambulances had been called to the scene of Friday’s accident in Odisha’s Balasore district and 100 additional doctors, on top of 80 already there, had been mobilised. more
Somehow, the words “horrible” and “terrible” and “catastrophic” and “tragic” don’t seem stong enough for the scale of death there.
“…making the rail accident the country’s deadliest in more than two decades.”
????? You mean there were worse accidents than this?
“India’s deadliest railway accident occurred in 1981 when a train plunged off a bridge and into a river in Bihar state, killing an estimated 800 people.”
Estimated?
World Economic Forum (WEF) approved…
You have to realize that they ride trains a bit,,,differently than we are accustomed to…
https://www.businessinsider.com/indias-trains-are-insanely-crowded-2016-2?amp
I’ll take the Indian train over the New York subway.
See that SNS made the comment I was thinking about. Not everybody has the luxury of riding INSIDE the cars. More hanging off the sides and on top of the roofs than inside.
Most people (especially U.S. non-military) are clueless how other people live in many of their countries. Son went to the PI for his in-law’s grandmother’s 100 birthday. Educated him when he got out in the boonies without flush toilets or showers. Even in the cities they had body guards on him as he stuck out as a great candidate for kidnapping or robbery. When he got back stateside he almost kissed the ground on the tarmac.
And how many chickens and goats?
The whole accident is so sad.
A while ago there was a story about a fire on a train in India caused by someone lighting a brazier to cook lunch.
Given there are no regulations for rail travel. Hundreds of people are on the roof and hanging on the side of nearly every train car, a disaster of this magnitude was inevitable.
Another similar disaster is just a matter of time.
There’s a Book out there Subtitled “The Worlds most dangerous Conveyances ”
Starts out with Cuban Aeroflot and covers Riverboats in South America , and
Buses/Trains in India…I need to Read it again.