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Added on the 12/11/2015 00:19:24 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
An Amtrak passenger train crashed into a vehicle early Monday morning after the driver of the car tried to bypass the crossing gates, which were down.
India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and rescuers work on the scene after eight people were killed in India's West Bengal state, when an express passenger train and a goods train collided, derailing three passenger carriages. IMAGES
At least eight people were killed in India on Monday when a goods train driver missed a signal and slammed into an express passenger train from behind, police and railway officials said. Three passenger carriages were derailed and flipped on their side, while one carriage was thrust high into the air, precariously balanced on another. IMAGES
At least nine people were killed Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the fire broke out before dawn. Local media reports said the passengers had illegally smuggled aboard a gas cylinder which exploded when they tried to use it. IMAGES
Images of the building in L'Île-Saint-Denis near Paris, where a woman died and several other people were injured, including two firefighters, after a fire broke out in a residential building. A major emergency and fire-fighting operation was deployed, involving 195 fire-fighters supported by 60 engines. IMAGES