World & Nation
Amtrak and BNSF Railway claim a Missouri company that owned and operated the dump truck involved in the crash was negligent.
June 30, 2022
President Hosni Mubarak accepted the resignations of the transportation minister and railway chief as authorities prepared for a mass grave burial of unidentified, charred bodies from Egypt’s deadliest railway disaster.
Feb. 23, 2002
Eleven Egyptian railway officials were acquitted of negligence charges in the country’s worst rail disaster, which killed 361 people in February when flames ripped through a crowded train.
Sept. 30, 2002
Canadian transportation officials Tuesday suspended the operating license of the regional railway company whose unmanned train broke loose from a Quebec siding last month and ignited a massive fireball that killed 47 people and devastated the town of Lac-Megantic.
Aug. 13, 2013
Rail firm in deadly Quebec blast barred from operating in Canada
Railway services in Greece resume since a deadly head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight carrier killed 57 people three weeks ago.
March 22, 2023
The train engineer on duty during the July 6 Canadian rail disaster that killed at least 50 people and incinerated the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic is devastated and in seclusion, his lawyer told Canadian journalists Tuesday.
July 16, 2013
Engineer in Canada rail disaster unfairly blamed, lawyer says
Eleven railroad tanker cars carrying diesel fuel derailed and two caught fire in Soviet Turkmenia last week, Tass news agency reported Monday.
Oct. 18, 1988
Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours triggered the mudslide in Noney, a town in India’s northeastern Manipur state.