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A freight train derailed early Tuesday while crossing an overpass west of Baltimore, spilling tons of coal on top of two 19-year-old women who were sitting on the bridge and killing them, police said.

At least 13 people are dead after a train crash in India early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the ministry of railways said.

A bullet train in China's eastern province of Zhejiang derailed Saturday evening, with two carriages falling off a bridge, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

A train hit a bus at a railway crossing in northern India early Thursday, killing at least 35 people returning from a wedding party, an official said.

A train crash in central Indonesia killed at least 43 people and injured dozens Saturday, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. The toll was expected to rise with some bodies still trapped in the mangled wreckage.

The facts: On August 27, 1891, a passenger train jumped the tracks on a tall bridge near Statesville, North Carolina, sending seven rail cars below and about 30 people to their deaths.

At least 50 persons are feared death and several others injured when Sealdah-bound Uttarbanga Express from New Coochbehar rammed into the rear of the Bhagalpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express at Sainthia station in Birbhum district early today.

Investigators were searching for bodies in a mangled wreck Saturday, a day after two trains crashed and killed at least 98 people in eastern India, officials said.

A train derails in a mountainous area of south-eastern China, with reports saying at least 10 people have been killed.

Three teenage girls were joking around and taking pictures on a narrow bridge in a Florida town when they were hit by a train, ...