The train accident on Friday in eastern India is considered one of the world's worst in recent decades. Here you will find an overview of the most devastating rail disasters of the past 25 years.
An overview: At least 288 people are killed, in addition to more than 850 injured. At least 136 people killed in a train accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo in April 2016. Around 3000,<> people killed or injured by an explosion on a railway line in North Korea in 2004. In Egypt in 2002, 361 people died in a fire on the train from Cairo to Aswan.