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	Queen of the Sea train disaster - Definition, explanation
		The Queen of the Sea (Sinhala: Samudradevi) was a train operating between Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the southern resort town of Galle.
		At this point in its journey, the train was overwhelmed by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, estimated to be 6m high.
		According to the Sri Lankan authorities, only a few dozen people on the train survived, making this by far the world's worst railway accident (the previous record being a 1981 accident in Bihar, India, when about 800 people were killed when a train was blown off a bridge by a cyclone).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/q/qu/queen_of_the_sea_train_disaster.php (241 words)

	List of rail accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November 16, 1960 – Stéblová train disaster, Czechoslovakia: 118 are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
		January 8, 1962 – Harmelen, The Netherlands: The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal in fog and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
		June 1970 – Oslo, Norway: A train from Skien collides with a shunting locomotive at Lysaker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train_disaster (4794 words)

	International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)
		The final disaster management bill was unanimously accepted by parliament and the National Council of Provinces in their final sitting at the end of 2002 and was enacted by the president in January 2003.
		Civil protection activities in risk reduction and disaster management are decentralized in all 11 regions and 34 departments of the country with the regional commissions headed by the governors, while the prefects head the local department commissions.
		The relevance and therefore the efficacy of disaster risk reduction is heavily dependent upon the extent to which it reflects prevailing social, cultural and environmental interests of the people it is intended to serve.
	www.unisdr.org /eng/media-room/facts-sheets/fs-good-policies.htm (12442 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Sri Lanka disaster - The Samudra Devi (Ocean Queen) - Sri Lanka 's Death Train
		The train stood well above the coastal plain and the road level and people thought it would be a platform of safety from the frightening waves.
		At the disaster scene yesterday scores of troops were lifting bodies out of the wreckage and the water logged chaos of fallen trees and ruined buildings which surrounded it.
		As the tsunami engulfed the train, the Colombo restaurateur found himself stranded in a flooded carriage, cast adrift from his son and daughter.
	www.lankalibrary.com /news/train.htm (3944 words)

	150 Years of Train-Disasters
		Derailments, head-on or rear-end train collisions, and crossing collisions caused by weakened bridges and tracks, were and are too often caused by human error, faulty maintenance and gross negligence.
		Train accidents can occur in areas that are virtually inaccessible for emergency vehicles and personnel, especially at night or in extreme weather conditions.
		On November 9, 1963, a freight train collided in Japan with a truck on a crossing.
	www.emergency-management.net /traincrash.htm (2515 words)

	Why Bihar doesn’t shock Biharis? \| Hard News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A train journey in Bihar is often a ferocious nightmare.
		Even in Bihar, where the ultras seem to wield the power to hit where it hurts, democratic politics is the unquestionable choice of the vast majority of the people.
		The institutionalisation of Panchayat Raj banished Naxalism to neighbouring Bihar.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /portal/2005/11/229 (1553 words)

	‘Tsunami sweeping Bihar against Laloo’s terror' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bihar is a Sea of Spirituality Birth Place of Sita of Ramayan, Buddhism & Guru Gobind Singh, having Jainism significant history, Stronghold of 75% Hindus thousands of temples and millions of idols.
		Bihar of booming kidnapping industry has the dubious distinction of being one of India s most crime-ridden states, with 14 murders a day and one kidnapping every four hours.
		First, a bankrupt Bihar would be a financial liability on the Centre necessitating budgetary support at the cost tax-payers across the country.
	www.expressindia.com /messages.php?newsid=41303 (981 words)

	Over 300 feared killed in Indian train disaster
		As the mass anger grew over the train tragedy it was reported that Nitish Kumar, the Minister of Railways in the BJP (Bharatiya Janatha Party)-led government, has offered to resign from his post.
		The disaster happened when the Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail and the Awadh-Assam Express heading to Guwahati, the capital in the northeastern state of Assam, collided at 1.55 am.
		During this period there have been 15 major train accidents, with death tolls ranging from 20 to 300.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/aug1999/rail-a04.shtml (1478 words)

	bihartimes.com : A Passage to Bihar(news-Nov.2006)
		Patna, Dec 2 Thirty five people were killed when a 150-year-old bridge collapsed on an overcrowded Howrah-Jamalpur Superfast train in Bihar's Bhagalpur district early Saturday in a tragedy waiting to happen.
		The disaster simply crushed many passengers, many of whom were travelling illegally on the roof of the coaches and hanging on the doors, and seriously wounding many.
		According to villagers, a portion of the damaged bridge was hanging loosely but trains continued to run underneath, unaware of the danger lurking overhead.
	www.bihartimes.com /news06/Dec/02122.html (372 words)

	Indian train crash kills 10 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Shramjeevi Express, a high-speed passenger train, was bound for Patna, the capital of eastern Bihar state, from India's capital, Delhi.
		The train had not been on its usual route as it had been diverted because of the derailment of a goods train a few days earlier.
		Train tracks in America are almost impossible to protect.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/682133/posts (1089 words)

	CNN.com - Major train disasters since 1900 - Feb. 18, 2004
		Many of the fatalities in Wednesday's disaster in Iran were villagers, onlookers and rescue workers.
		The death toll is expected to rise after Iran train disaster.
		A speeding passenger train crashes into a train that had stalled after hitting a cow, 358 killed.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/02/18/iran.train.disaster (258 words)

	Bihar News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RK Mishra, a supplier to the animal husbandry department and nephew of former Bihar chief minister Mr Jagannath Mishra, was among the prime accused.
		Rehman, arrested last night from Sonouli along the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar, was a close associate of gangster Bablu Srivastav and suspected to have funded terrorist...
		The Bihar capital continues to be a strong base for SIMI activists.
	www.einnews.com /india/newsfeed-bihar (1005 words)

	Disaster Related Newslinks on IndianNGOs.com
		Bajpai was adressing a meeting of the state officials on disaster management when he said that by establishing these quake-resistant buildings, the state government would ensure no or lesser damage to life and property during a major tremor.
		Bihar Police have sounded an alert against the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP from Gopalganj after a special vigilance court here issued the warrant on Monday evening on a petition from the state Vigilance Bureau.
		The Bihar state branch of Indian Red Cross Society on Wednesday sent five truckloads of 1,100 family packs and medicine worth Rs 3 lakh to the Kerala state branch of the society for distribution among tsunami victims of the state.
	www.indianngos.com /news/disaster.htm (7612 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Dozens dead in Indian train disaster
		Thirty-three people were killed when a 140-year-old bridge toppled on an inter-city passenger train in eastern India on Saturday, a spokesperson for the state-run rail company said.
		Television footage showed the train car partially buried in rubble and twisted metal from the collapsed bridge.
		The inter-city train had crossed into Bihar en route to Jampalpur town when the accident occurred at Bhagalpur, 1240 kilometres east of the Indian capital New Delhi.
	www.iafrica.com /news/worldnews/498510.htm (509 words)

	Print Page - NORTH KOREA: Train explosion-150 reported dead, thousands injured (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Train wrecks with large numbers of fatalities are rare in North Korea, largely because trains creak slowly along rails that were first laid during the Japanese occupation, more than 60 years ago.
		One report said a passenger train packed with Chinese travellers was in the station when the accident happened, and another that schools and houses were apparently hit in the blast.
		The world's worst rail disaster to date was in India in 1981 when at least 800 people died after a crowded train was blown off the track during a cyclone.
	discuss.agonist.org /smf?board=19;action=printpage;threadid=18815 (18729 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Iran mourns train blast victims
		Iran is observing a national day of mourning for victims of the train disaster which killed at least 295 people in the country's north-east.
		Iranian TV said the freight train - which included 17 wagons of sulphur, six wagons of petrol, seven wagons of fertilisers and 10 wagons of cotton wool - broke loose and rolled about 20km (12 miles) down the track.
		They are also demanding to know why the train was loaded with such a lethal combination of chemicals.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3502075.stm (597 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Train Accident Or Nuclear Bomb
		Although N. Korea is claiming this was a train accident that caused dynamite to explode.
		It is unclear what medical treatment is available to those injured in the disaster, as North Korea's medical system has all but collapsed and the country is experiencing severe shortages of food and energy.
		Any huge explosion will produce a fireball and if that train was transporting dynamite the explosion could very well be in the kilo-ton range.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=7859 (1709 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		For two minutes today, coach S-11 of the Falaknuma Express was a chaos of screaming passengers scrambling for the vestibules as its rear wheels somehow kept their precarious grip on the tracks.
		The train’s freak run on the verge of derailment ended when the driver scented something was amiss and brought it to a halt.
		It was S-11’s position in the middle of the train that averted a derailment and a possible disaster, said railway divisional security commissioner Sadanzeb Khan.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1061031/asp/nation/story_6938557.asp (576 words)

	Disaster management institute, university join hands
		"Disaster preparedness, mitigation and management are areas of concern, and collaboration of a policy making body with our university will be greatly helpful in the area of disaster management," Amarjeet Kaur, dean of the school of environment management, GGSIPU, told IANS.
		GGSIPU started an MBA programme on disaster management last year to train top officials from fire services and police forces.
		Kaur added that the two organisations would develop curriculum for training programmes on disaster risk management.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060425/316099.html (231 words)

	[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: IR History: Part 5
		There has never been a satisfactory explanation for the cause of the disaster, with divers reasons such as a sudden storm, or extreme braking on sighting oxen on the track, being offered for the accident.
		[Disaster] Aug 6: 52 killed and 35 injured as two coaches of an express train fall into a stream after colliding with a stationary goods train in Palamau district, Bihar.
		[Disaster] Dec. 1: The freak incident in which a combination of a loco fire and human error caused the rake of the Indrayani Express, full of passengers, to roll away on its own from Thakurwadi to Karjat, saved from becoming a fatal accident only when it slowed down when the incline changed.
	www.irfca.org /faq/faq-history5.html (2508 words)

	[IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: IR History: Part 6
		This is India's second worst railway disaster going by the death toll (the 1981 accident in which a train fell into a river in Bihar being the worst).
		KR is blamed by some for not having studied the stability of the landforms in the area adequately as well as for not patrolling the area thoroughly in the monsoon season.
		[Disaster] Jun. 25: Seven persons (including the driver and 6 trackmen) are killed when two locomotives and and seven wagons of a goods train fall 200 feet off a bridge between Dihakho and Mupa on the MG Lumding-Badarpur hill section of NFR.
	www.irfca.org /faq/faq-history6.html (4406 words)

	info: Bihar_train_disaster
		On June 6, 1981, a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, derailed while it was crossing a bridge that was spanning the Bagmati river and plunged into the river.
		Bihar train disaster: Definition and Much More from Answers.comBihar train disaster On June 6, 1981, a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, derailed while it was crossing a bridge that
		Bihar or Behar (bÄ“hÃ¤r`), state (2001 provisional pop.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Bihar_train_disaster.html (442 words)

	rediff.com: Army asked to stand by, Bihar police rule out sabotage
		The army joined the railways and the state authorities in relief and rescue operations after Monday night's train disaster in Bihar's Aurangabad district.
		Magadh Divisional Commissioner H C Sirohi told PTI over the phone from Gaya that a group of 100 soldiers has been rushed to the accident site near Rafiganj in Aurangabad district.
		Meanwhile, Bihar's IGP (Operations) Neelmani ruled out the possibility of sabotage as the cause of the accident.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/sep/10train2.htm (198 words)

	The Corporate Mafia \| Desi Train
		IIPM seems to be doing the exact opposite of what is supposed to be done to stop this raging fire as quickly as possible.
		Shutting up people’s freedom in the mafia lanes of Bombay or Bihar may work at times.
		Could someone at IIPM start to actually see where all this is heading and U-Turns the IIPM vehicle before it heads towards an unavoidable disaster of infamy.
	www.desitrain.com /2005/10/11/the-corporate-mafia (533 words)

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