July 14, 2016
PARIS (AFP) - At least 22 people died Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia in the latest rail tragedy to hit Europe.
Here are some of the others that occurred in recent years:
- November 6, 2002: FRANCE - A compartment on the night train from Paris to Munich catches fire near the station in Nancy, killing 12.
- May 8, 2003: HUNGARY - 33 killed in a collision between a train and a coach at a crossing in the western town of Siofok.
- June 3, 2003: SPAIN - 19 die when a passenger train crashes into a freight train near Chinchilla.
- January 7, 2005: ITALY - 17 killed in a collision between a passenger train and a goods train near Bologna.
- September 22, 2006: GERMANY - 23 killed when a magnetic-levitation train crashes on a test track near the north-western town of Lathen.
- June 30, 2009: ITALY - A derailment and a subsequent explosion on a train carrying liquid petroleum gas kills 29 at the station in the town of Viareggio.
- February 15, 2010: BELGIUM - Two trains collide in a Brussels suburb, killing 18 and injuring 95.
- January 29, 2011: GERMANY - Ten people die and 22 are injured when a regional passenger train collides with a goods train at Hordorf in eastern Germany.
- March 3, 2012: POLAND - Sixteen people are killed and around 60 injured when two trains crash head on as they travel on the same section of track at Szczekociny, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Warsaw.
- July 24, 2013: SPAIN - A train bound from Madrid shoots off the tracks near Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, killing 80 passengers and injuring 144.
- November 14, 2015: FRANCE - Eleven people are killed and 42 injured after a TGV train derails during a test run in northeast France. Accident investigators say the train was travelling too fast.
- February 9, 2016: GERMANY: A collision between two regional trains leaves 12 dead and 85 injured in Bavaria in southern Germany.
