Japan train tragedy joins list of others

A crowded Japanese commuter train derailed and slammed into an apartment building on Monday, killing at least 50 people and injuring hundreds in Japan’s worst train accident in more than 40 years.

The accident was the worst in Japan since 1963 when about 160 people were killed in a multiple train collision at Yokohama, near Tokyo.

Here are some of the world’s worst recent rail accidents, in chronological order.

June 6, 1981 - At least 800 people are killed when seven rear coaches of an overcrowded passenger train are blown off the track during a cyclone in India. The coaches plunge into the River Kosi.

Jan. 13, 1985 - In Ethiopia, several coaches plunge into a ravine after leaving the rails at a crossing, killing 392.

June 4, 1989 - At least 575 people are killed in the Ural mountains in the Soviet Union when two passenger trains are engulfed in an explosion from a leaking gas pipeline.

Jan. 3, 1990 - A packed passenger express crashes into a stationary freight train in southern Pakistan, killing 307.

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Sept. 22, 1994 - Up to 300 people are killed when a train derails just outside the southern Angolan city of Lubango.

Aug. 20, 1995 - At least 350 people are killed in India when two trains collide 125 miles from Delhi.

Oct. 28, 1995 - About 300 people are killed when an underground railway train catches fire in the Azerbaijan capital Baku.

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Aug. 2, 1999 - At least 285 killed in India when two trains collide north of Calcutta.

Feb. 20, 2002 - 361 people are killed when fire engulfs a crowded Egyptian passenger train south of Cairo.

June 24, 2002 - A passenger train, travelling from Dar es Salaam to the northwestern town of Kigoma in Tanzania, rolls backwards on the track, crashing into a cargo train and killing at least 281.

Feb. 18, 2003 - 130 people are killed after fire and smoke engulfed a packed subway train in Taegu, South Korea. The fire was apparently started by an arsonist who set fire to a container filled with a flammable liquid aboard a crowded train.

Feb. 18, 2004 - Almost 300 people are killed and 450 are injured when 51 train wagons filled with petrol, fertilizer and sulfur products derail and explode near Nishapur, Iran.

April 22, 2004 - A train laden with explosives blows up near Ryongchon in North Korea. 161 people are killed and hundreds are injured.

Dec. 26, 2004 - More than 1,000 train passengers are swept to their deaths as giant waves from the Asian tsunami washed a train from the tracks in Sri Lanka.

April 25, 2005 - At least 56 people are killed and hundreds injured near the Japanese city of Osaka when a crowded commuter train derails and slams into an apartment building.