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India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and rescuers work on the scene after eight people were killed in India's West Bengal state, when an express passenger train and a goods train collided, derailing three passenger carriages. IMAGES
At least eight people were killed in India on Monday when a goods train driver missed a signal and slammed into an express passenger train from behind, police and railway officials said. Three passenger carriages were derailed and flipped on their side, while one carriage was thrust high into the air, precariously balanced on another. IMAGES
Images of the Mbankolo district, on the north-western outskirts of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, following the collapse of a section of a hillside covered in precariously built houses. The landslide was caused by torrential rain on the evening of 8 October. At least 27 people have been killed in the collapse. 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 show the wreckage of a train that derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 19 people. The incident happened near the Sahara railway station in the city of Nawabshah in Sindh province, according to reports by local media. IMAGES show derailed train carriages