The accident occurred after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday evening. The train crash that killed at least 288 people and injured more than 900 on Friday in India is one of the worst railway disasters in the world in the past decade.
In this presentation, an inventory of the most prominent of these incidents is given. The list includes the derailments in Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Taiwan, Greece, Cameroon, Spain, India and the Philippines.