June 3 (Reuters) - At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in one of India's worst rail accidents in years.
Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in India in recent decades:June 1981: At least 800 people are killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track and fall into a river during a cyclone.
July 1988: An express train leaves the rails and plunges into a monsoon-swollen lake near Quilon in southern India, killing at least 106 people.
October 2005: Several coaches of a passenger train derail in southern Andhra Pradesh state, near Velugonda.
January 2017: At least 41 people are killed after several coaches of a passenger train go off the rails in southern Andhra Pradesh state.
Persons:
Akriti Sharma, Rosalba O'Brien
Organizations:
Reuters, REUTERS, Thomson
Locations:
Odisha, India, Quilon, Delhi, Balasore, Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh, Velugonda, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India's Amritsar, Bengaluru