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1994, Angola

- Faulty brakes cause a train to plunge into a ravine in Tolunda, Angola, killing 300.

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2005, Japan - More than 100 people are killed when a commuter train slams into an apartment block in the western city of Amagasaki.

2004, Sri Lanka - Up to 2000 people die when a train is engulfed by the Indian Ocean tsunami at Telwatta, 110 km south of the capital Colombo.
More than 1500 people were on the train, bound for the southern city of Galle, but they were joined by hundreds of villagers who jumped aboard to avoid the tsunami.

2004, North Korea - At least 150 people are killed and 1300 injured when a train hits a power line near the Chinese border, igniting wagons of oil and chemicals.
More than 30 public buildings and homes for 8000 families are destroyed.

2004, Iran - Nearly 300 people are killed when train wagons break free and roll about 20 km
before derailing and catching fire.

2002, Tanzania - Nearly 300 die when a passenger train carrying more than 1200 people loses power on the brow of a hill near the capital, Dodoma, and rolls back at high speed into a freight train.

2002, Egypt - A train catches fire after leaving Cairo for Luxor, killing 373 people.
The train is packed to twice its capacity, and more than 100 bodies are so badly burned they cannot be identified.

1981, India - In Bihar, 800 people are killed when a cyclone blows a train into river.
It is thought to be the worst of many disasters on India's extensive but overcrowded rail network.

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