Chronology of Indian rail disasters since 1985

NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (AFP) - Chronology of India rail disasters since 1985 following Monday's crash in eastern India which could have killed up to 500 people.

Feb 23, 1985: At least 50 people were charred to death as two cars of a passenger train caught fire in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

June 13, 1985: A collision between an express and a freight train left 38 dead and 50 injured in the Taj Mahal town of Agra.

March 10, 1986: About 50 killed and 200 injured when two trains collided in eastern state of Bihar.

Aug 6, 1986: 52 killed as two cars of an express train plunged into a river after colliding with a stationary goods train in Bihar.

July 8, 1987: The derailment of a passenger train killed 53 in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

July 8, 1988: 107 people died when a train plunged into a lake in the southern state of Kerala.

April 18, 1989: 75 killed as train jumped rails in the Uttar Pradesh state.

Nov 1,1989: Train derailment killed 48 in Bihar.

April 16, 1990: At least 70 people burned alive when a suburban train caught fire in Bihar capital Patna.

June 25, 1990: 60 die when a freight train rammed a passenger train in Bihar.

Oct 10, 1990: 40 killed in a fire on a passenger train in Andhra Pradesh.

Sept 5, 1992: A total of 41 people die in a two-train collision in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

July 16, 1993: 60 killed in Bihar state train tragedy.

Sept 21,1993: 71 killed in two-train collision in the northern desert state of Rajasthan.

May 3, 1994: Some 35 killed as express slams into a tractor in Andhra Pradesh.

May 14, 1995: 52 people killed when an express train collided with a goods train.

June 1, 1995: 73 killed in two accidents in West Bengal and Orissa.

Aug 20, 1995: A total of 302 people die when two express trains collided in the city of Firozabad near Agra.

April 18, 1996: 60 die in two-train collision in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Dec 30, 1996: Bomb blast kills 33 on a train in the far-eastern state of Assam.

July 8, 1997: 33 killed in bomb blast on a passenger train in the troubled northern state of Punjab.

Sept 14, 1997: 81 die when five passenger train carriages plunge into a river in Madhya Pradesh.

Jan 6, 1998: 50 people die and 62 are injured after a train overshoots a signal and rams into a second which had stopped after a deer strayed onto the line in Uttar Pradesh.

Nov 26, 1998: 210 killed when a speeding train rams into a derailed express in the northern state of Punjab.

Aug 2, 1999: More than 200 were killed in an explosion which tore through two passenger trains at a railway station in eastern India.

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