These are some of the deadliest railway disasters in India’s recent history.

India’s train crash that killed at least 288 people and injured hundreds more is remarkable, even in a country with a long history of train deaths.

In 2021 alone, there were more than 16,000 train-related deaths in India, according to the country’s National Crime Records Bureau, a figure that includes cases where people were hit while walking on rails or falling from moving trains.

Here’s a look at some of the worst crashes in recent years.

• The deadliest accident in Indian railway history occurred in 1981, when a passenger train derailed while crossing a bridge in the state of Bihar. The cars sank in the Bagmati River, killing an estimated 750 passengers; many bodies were never recovered.

• In 1999, an accident in West Bengal killed about 285 people when two trains collided head-on.

• In 2005, at least two dozen people were killed when an overcrowded passenger train collided with a stationary freight train in the western state of Gujarat.

• Dozens killed when a mail train derailed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, east of New Delhi, in 2011.

• In 2016, more than 100 passengers died in another derailment in Uttar Pradesh.

• In 2018, dozens of people were mowed down by a speeding train in the northwestern state of Punjab as they celebrated a Hindu festival with fireworks.