What the records say
- When
- 20 Aug 1995
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 27.15° N, 78.39° E
- Description
- rail disaster in India
Firozabad rail collision
1995 train crash in Uttar Pradesh, India
The Firozabad rail collision occurred on 20 August 1995 near Firozabad on the Delhi–Kanpur section of India's Northern Railway, at 02:55 when a passenger train collided with a train that had stopped after hitting a nilgai, killing 358 people. Some estimate the death toll at more than 400. The crash happened in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Both trains were bound for the Indian capital, New Delhi.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Catastrophe ferroviaire de Firozabad (bilan : )”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “フィロザバード鉄道事故”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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