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Images of the Saint-Lazare station in Paris as the rail network is disrupted on the fifth day of strikes against pension reform. IMAGES
European ministers meeting in Paris vow to intensify railway security following last week's foiled train attack in northern France. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Workers and emergency personnel clear the scene following a train crash in Bangladesh which killed at least 17 people and injured 100 others. The crash in the eastern city of Bhairab saw a freight train smash into a passenger train travelling in the opposite direction, derailing two passenger carriages. IMAGES
At least nine people were killed Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the fire broke out before dawn. Local media reports said the passengers had illegally smuggled aboard a gas cylinder which exploded when they tried to use it. IMAGES
Images from a multi-train crash site that killed more than 288 people and injured more than 850 injured near Balasore, in India's eastern state of Odisha, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Carriages had flipped over entirely in the crash late on Friday and as dawn broke on Saturday, rescue workers were able to see the full extent of the carnage. IMAGES
After walking on the rails between the Lyon and Bercy stations in Paris, striking railway workers hold a general assembly on the 10th day of protests against pension reform. IMAGES