Seven passengers are reported to have been killed and several others injured when a Delhi-bound train derailed in India’s eastern state of Bihar, railways officials have said. Sixty people were killed last year when a commuter train travelling at high speed ran through a crowd of people on tracks in northern India. India’s state railways, largely built under British colonial rule, have a poor safety record after decades of underinvestment in infrastructure

Source: The Guardian February 03, 2019 17:03 UTC