Mamata orders probe into Mathura train collision

October 20th, 2009 2 die in train collision in IndiaNEW DELHI — A passenger train crashed into another train early Wednesday near the Taj Mahal in northern India, killing at least two people and trapping scores of people in a smashed coach, an official said. Rescuers used gas cutters to open the smashed rear coach following the collision near Agra, the site of the Taj Mahal about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of New Delhi, said Suresh Chandra Sharma, the district magistrate.

October 20th, 2009 4 die in train collision in IndiaNEW DELHI — A passenger train crashed into another train early Wednesday near the Taj Mahal in northern India, killing at least four people and trapping scores of people in a smashed coach, an official said. Rescuers used gas cutters to open the smashed rear coach following the collision near Agra, the site of the Taj Mahal about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of New Delhi, said Rajesh Bajpai, a railway spokesman.

October 20th, 2009 AGRA - At least 10 people were reportedly killed, over a dozen injured and several others believed to be trapped in a mangled carriage after two trains collided Wednesday morning in Mathura city in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. The accident occurred when the Goa Express rammed into the stationary Mewar Express from behind at an outer signal, some 55 km from Agra.

September 24th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - One man died and several people were injured as two cargo trains collided and hit a passenger train Thursday night near Rotterdam, Dutch police said. The driver of one of the cargo trains died and, according to police, "relatively few others were injured" when two cargo trains collided around 10.30 p.m.

September 24th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Several people were injured as two cargo trains collided and hit a passenger train near Rotterdam Thursday night, according to Dutch police. Police said "there were relatively few injured" after the two cargo trains collided at about 10.30 p.m.

September 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Police in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura town Tuesday said they had solved the murder of a teenaged girl whose body was found stuffed in a bag in a coach of a Mumbai bound train, and arrested her uncle from New Delhi. The girl, identified as Manjot Singh, was murdered by her uncle Gurbagh Singh, a resident of Delhi, they said.

September 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - The body of a teenage girl was found in an unattended bag in a Mumbai-bound train in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday. Panic prevailed in an AC coach of the Maharashtra Sampark Kranti Express after a large unattended bag was found underneath a seat.

July 19th, 2009 WASINGTON - At least 60 people were injured when two light-rail trains collided at a station in San Francisco Saturday, local media reported. One train slammed into the back of another train standing at a platform at about 3 p.m., the CBS 5 television news reported.

July 4th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Barely 12 hours after Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee stressed safety measures in her rail budget, a passenger train collided with a static goods train in Ghaziabad late Friday. Twelve people were injured in the accident, officials said Saturday.

June 29th, 2009 BEIJING - At least three people died and 60 were injured when two passenger trains collided in central China's Hunan province early Monday. The collision, which derailed several carriages and a locomotive, took place at the railway station in Hunan's Chenzhou city, state media reported.

June 23rd, 2009 DC transit train smashes into another, killing 9WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia Fire Department has raised the death toll to nine in Monday's collision of two Metrorail trains. A release on the department's Web site says rescue workers located three more bodies in the wreckage late Monday night.

June 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Six people were killed and about 70 injured when two subway metro trains collided here during the late afternoon rush hour Monday, authorities said. The above-ground collision occurred about 5 p.m.

June 23rd, 2009 DC Metro chief: First train stopped, second hit itWASHINGTON — The general manager of the Washington Metro says the two-train collision occurred when one train stopped at a platform near the Fort Totten station, and a second train hit it from behind. John Catoe told reporters Monday that for reasons we do not know the second train plowed into the back of that train.

June 23rd, 2009 DC Metro confirms earlier reports of 9 deadWASHINGTON — Metro transit officials are confirming an earlier report that nine people were killed in a train collision. Metro spokeswoman Candace Smith says four bodies were recovered from the wreckage Monday after the rush-hour crash.

June 22nd, 2009 6-car train derails near Maryland-DC lineWASHINGTON — Metro officials say a six-car train has collided with another train and derailed near the Washington, D.C., and Maryland border. Spokeswoman Taryn McNeil says the collision happened about 5 p.m.