India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation's worst rail disasters

BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday. ...

India's deadly train crash renews questions over safety as government pushes railway upgrade

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister had been scheduled to inaugurate an electrical semi-high-speed train equipped with a safety feature — another step in the modernization of an antiquated railway that is the lifeline of the world's most populous nation. Instead on...

A look at deadly train crashes in India in recent decades

NEW DELHI (AP) — The latest deadly train crash in India happened Friday, when two passenger trains derailed — killing more than 200 people, injuring more than 900 and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. More than 12 million...

India train crash death toll rises above 230 with 900 injured as rescuers comb through debris

NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers waded through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free people after two passenger trains derailed Friday night in India, killing more than 230 people and leaving hundreds of others trapped inside more than a dozen mangled rail cars, in one of the...

Top state bureaucrat says death toll in Indian train accident climbs to more than 200

Fire chief tells news outlet that death toll in India train accident has risen to 120, with more than 800 hurt

Officials say a train has derailed in eastern India, trapping many people inside its coaches; 179 reportedly injured.

Crews clean up after two trains derail in Minnesota and North Dakota but no toxic chemicals spilled

LANCASTER, Minn. (AP) — Crews are still cleaning up after two Canadian Pacific Kansas City trains derailed in Minnesota and North Dakota earlier this week. Several hazardous materials cars were among the 24 cars that toppled in the Minnesota derailment Wednesday in the northwest...

Investigators say damaged ties caused German derailment that killed 5

BERLIN (AP) — A train derailment a year ago in the German Alps that left five people dead was caused primarily by damaged concrete ties on the track, investigators said Thursday. The double-deck regional train derailed on June 3, 2022, shortly after leaving the Alpine resort town...

Stables, trainers try to move through grief over euthanized horses as racing thunders on

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frank Sumpter has spent the past few weeks reflecting on Wild On Ice’s remarkable journey to somehow work through his grief over the horse’s catastrophic injury just nine days before he was supposed to race in the Kentucky Derby. Coming so close has...