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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: What can India do to avoid another train tragedy?
Description: At least 288 people were killed and hundreds injured in the deadly crash that happened in Odisha.
It jolted India.
News crews rushed to the accident spot in Balasore to find mangled train coaches rammed on top of each other. So far, at least 80 bodies remain unclaimed.
But this is not the first such tragedy. India has seen many deadly train accidents before. The country’s rail network is huge, spanning more than 100,000km, but it is also old and overburdened. It carries more than 25 million passengers every day, and there is even more de...