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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 22 January 2017 - 10:37 AM

The Sun, London, UK 1/22:
 

TRAIN CRASH HORROR

At least 36 dead and 50 injured as express train derails in India

 

RESCUERS have been battling to pull survivors form the wreckage of a train crash which killed at least 36 and left another 50 injured in southern India.

 

Eight coaches and the engine of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar express were derailed at around 11:00 pm on Saturday in the latest of a series of disasters on the country’s creaking rail network.

 

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Posted 23 January 2017 - 11:55 AM

From the Indian Express

 

Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express derailment: Third train accident in 2 months, 40 killed in Andhra

This was the third major derailment in a little over two months. On November 10 last year, 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express derailed at Pukhrayan, 60 km from Kanpur, resulting in at least 150 deaths.

At least 40 people were killed and over 65 injured after the 18448 Hirakhand Express went off the rails in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district late on Saturday evening. All the dead and injured were travelling in the train, going from Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh to Bhubaneswar.
 
Most of the dead were from Odisha. Late on Sunday evening, rescuers were trying to cut open a mangled general compartment and a sleeper compartment, and the toll was expected to go up. “We will get the final death toll only after these two bogies are searched,” Rayagada SP K Sivasubramani said.
 
By late evening, 27 bodies had been identified and handed over to their families after autopsy, officials said.

 
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Posted 23 January 2017 - 12:01 PM

From UPI
 

Train derailment in southern India kills at least 36
 
Jan. 22 (UPI) -- At least 36 passengers died in a train derailment in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said Sunday.
 
Dozens more were injured when eight coaches and the engine of the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express left the tracks at 11:15 p.m. Saturday near the border of the neighboring eastern state of Odisha, an unidentified senior railway official told China's state-run Xinhua news agency.

 

The train was going from Jagdalpur in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh to Odisha capital of Bhubaneswar.

 

 
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Posted 23 January 2017 - 09:07 PM

NDTV, 1/24/17:
 

 

After Hirakhand Express Derailment, Congress Demands Detailed Report On Train Accidents


Congress on Monday hit out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for the recent spate of train accidents in the country, demanding a detailed report on them and asked PM Modi "who was responsible for them and what action will be taken against them".

  

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Posted 24 January 2017 - 09:51 AM

Just a heads up ... in India "Congress" is the name of a political party. The equivalent of what is known as "Congress" in the US is known as the "Parliament" in India. Like the US Congress, Parliament in India has two Houses. The Lower House equivalent of the House of Representatives in the US, is the House of the People or "Lok Sabha" in India. The Upper House or the equivalent of the US Senate is the House of the States or the "Rajya Sabha". Strictly speaking aactually, the Rajya Sabha in India is more like the British House of Lords, since elections to it are either indirect or by appointment using a complex formula.






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