What the records say
- When
- 6 Jun 1981
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 25.57° N, 86.59° E
- Description
- Major Indian train tragedy
- Deaths
- 800
5 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bihar train disaster: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the Bagmati River in Bihar, India, killing between 500 and 800.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un accident ferroviaire au Bihar provoque plus de 800 victimes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “произошла самая крупная в истории железнодорожная катастрофа в XX веке”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Bijar (India) sucede el «Accidente ferroviario de Bihar≫: siete vagones de un tren de pasajeros sobrecargado descarrilan y caen al río Kosi; mueren…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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