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Greek authorities confirmed on Wednesday night that the death toll had risen to 38 following Tuesday’s tragic passenger train crash, likely caused by a “tragic human error”. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: “Everything in this tragedy points, unfortunately, mainly to human error,” said Mitsotakis in a televised address on …

The collision between freight and passenger trains in Greece caused a blaze with people trapped inside overturned cars At least 36 people have been killed and dozens injured following a head-on collision between two trains in northeastern Greece. Some 350 passengers were on board one of the trains at the …

A cargo train has hit a rush-hour passenger train in Catalonia, killing an engineer and injuring 85 people, Spanish authorities and the regional rail company said. Emergency crews said they were helping to remove about 100 people from the passenger train. The accident happened about 6 pm on Monday 15km …

A train has derailed south of Austria’s capital Vienna, Austrian news agency APA reported on Monday. Newspaper Krone said two deaths and 15 injuries have been reported, without citing sources.

Two people were killed and six others injured on Monday in a train-bus collision in Helwan City of Egypt near the capital Cairo, the Egyptian Health Ministry said in a statement.

Pakistani engineers Tuesday combed the mangled wreckage of two trains that collided in a remote farming region, an accident that killed dozens and highlighted huge safety problems on the nation’s dilapidated rail network. At least 63 people were killed early Monday when a high-speed passenger train knifed through carriages of …

At least 37 people were killed and dozens more injured in Pakistan’s Sindh province after an express train derailed and collided with another passenger train coming from the opposite direction. The incident occurred early on Monday near the city of Daharki, in Ghotki District of Pakistan’s southeast Sindh province. According …

Up to 50 people were killed when a cargo train derailed in Congo’s southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday, government officials said, though reports on casualties differed widely. The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Steve Mbikayi, said the derailment happened around 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), …

A child has died after a man pushed him and his mother in front of an oncoming high-speed train at Frankfurt’s main station, police said. Witnesses reportedly saw a man dressed in dark clothes shove the pair onto the tracks as an InterCity Express train pulled into the station in …

Japan is about to start testing its fastest ever bullet train, which can reach speeds of up to 400kph. The Alfa-X train will be put into service in 2030, with plans to run it at 360kph. This will make it faster than China’s Fuxing Hao service linking Beijing and Shanghai …

A fiery train crash killed at least 20 people at Cairo’s main railway station on Wednesday, Egyptian security and medical sources said. The accident, which sparked a major blaze at the Ramses station, also injured 40 others, the sources said. Egyptian state TV confirmed the figures. The fire broke out …