"Shocking News" – 15,000 People Killed By Trains Every Year in India

22.02.2012

15,000 people die every year on India's train tracks.

A government committee in India has accused authorities of a "massacre" after a report revealed that approximately 15,000 people die every year trying to cross the tracks of the country's mammoth rail network.

About 6,000 people die on Mumbai's crowded suburban rail network alone, the safety panel's report said. Another 1,000 people die when they fall from crowded coaches, when trains collide or coaches derail. Most of the deaths occur at unmanned railroad crossings.