Major train accidents that jolted India

NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 3: As the death toll in the Odisha train accident involving two express trains -- Bengaluru-Howrah Express and Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express -- and a goods train in Balasore has risen to 238, we look back at the most tragic train accidents that have jolted the nation in the past.

June 6, 1981: Over 300 people were killed in the Bihar train derailment after a train fell into the river Bagmati while crossing a bridge on June 6, 1981.