"Three trains have crashed in India’s eastern #Odisha state, killing at least 288 people in the country’s worst rail disaster in 20 years.

Nearly 900 people were injured in the accident in #Balasore district, said Pradeep Jena, the state’s top administrative official. The cause of the horrific crash was under investigation."

#India’s worst #TrainDisaster in 20 years | #TrainCrash | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/6/3/in-pictures-indias-worst-train-disaster-in-20-years

India’s worst train disaster in 20 years

Clean-up operations under way in the eastern state of Odisha after collision of three trains killed nearly 300 people.

Al Jazeera
General strike Greece Historic numbers of protestors had assembled across Greece last week to demand justice for the victims of the Tempi train ...
New General Strike in Greece Over Rail Disaster to Ground Planes
New General Strike in Greece Over Rail Disaster to Ground Planes

A new nationwide strike will take place in Greece on Thursday over the deadly rail collision at Tempi that claimed the lives of 57 people.

GreekReporter.com

Two #NorfolkSouthern rail accidents in four days in #Ohio show nothing has been done after #EastPalestine disaster - World Socialist Web Site

#TrainDisaster #RailCrash #RailDisaster

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/08/ohio-m08.html

Two Norfolk Southern rail accidents in four days in Ohio show nothing has been done after East Palestine disaster

According to press reports, 46 year-old Louis Shuster was positioned outside of the locomotive when it collided with dump truck at crossing at a Cleveland steel mill.

World Socialist Web Site
Understaffing, poor maintenance, government indifference - lost opportunities and lost lives https://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.the-agora.12862 #Tempe #TrainDisaster #Greece #TrainCrash
Our tragedy: How could this happen?

There is one question more than any other swirling around in our minds as we contemplate the devastation of this week’s train crash, which killed more than 50 people, mostly young Greeks: How could this happen?

MacroPolis

Phosgene gas, which was released in East Palestine as a result of burning train cars carrying hazardous substances, killed 85,000 soldiers/ people in World War I, when it was deliberately used as a weapon of war.

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) can turn into phosgene, when exposed to heat.

So it may have been a questionable idea to conduct a "controlled burn" of railcars, carrying such substances.

#EastPalestine #Ohio #Derailment #TrainDisaster #Hazmat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/ohio-train-derailment-wake-up-call

Ohio catastrophe is ‘wake-up call’ to dangers of deadly train derailments

The next derailment ‘could be cataclysmic’ if action isn’t taken after the incident near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, says expert

The Guardian
@Wolven It’s the US version of Chornobyl and they’re not only not allowing people to report on it, they’re burying the story by talking about shooting down balloons instead.
I think the administration is terrified that if news of it got out, it could sink the Biden administration for backing the RR companies in the strike. But the coverup is always worse. #EastPalestine #Ohio #TrainDisaster