India to replace railway coaches after another fatal incident
Nearly 200 people have been killed in disasters on India’s rail network over the past two months
23 January 2017 - 12:28
New Delhi — India will replace its existing fleet of old railway coaches with high-tech German-built ones, after nearly 200 people were killed in disasters on the network in the last two months. Thirty-nine people died when a train derailed on Saturday night in southern Andhra Pradesh state, exactly two months after 146 people died in a similar disaster near the northern city of Kanpur in November. The state-run network, one of the world’s largest, has been hit by several smaller incidents in the same period, including another crash near Kanpur on December 28 when two people were killed.
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