Why...? - Why Trains Crash: India’s Deadly Disaster
Contains some upsetting scenes.
This programme has been edited since broadcast with replacement of two images in the sequence on the 1999 Paddington rail crash.
On 2 June 2023, a triple train crash killed nearly 300 people and injured more than 800 in India’s eastern Odisha state. This film examines what went wrong and explores the causes of train disasters.
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