Boat capsizes in Odisha’s Jharsuguda: Woman dead, seven missing
A 35-year-old woman was killed, and seven others, including three children, are missing after a boat they were travelling in capsized in Odisha's Jharsuguda, police said on Saturday.
As many as 41,596 train passengers died in the last decade without any train accidents in the country. More than 2,580 passengers died by getting stuck between the train and the platform. On an average, more than 250 passengers die every year by coming between the train and the platform.
At the same time, the death after falling from a moving train is more than this. During this period, 39,015 passengers lost their lives due to falling from trains. Thus, every day 10 railway passengers are dying after falling from a moving train.
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport and Tourism presented the report in Parliament on Thursday, which contains critical data about the operations of trains in the country. In this report submitted to the Commission of Railway Safety (CRS), the Railway Board has revealed that from 2012 to 2021, 2581 passengers died due to falling in the gap between the train and the platform.
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A maximum of 399 passengers died in 2016, whereas in 2013, 352 and in 2014, 349 passengers died after getting trapped in this gap.
Similarly, from 2012 to 2021, 39015 passengers died due to falling from a moving train. In 2016, a maximum of 5070 passengers died after falling from a moving train. In 2015, 4979 and in 2014, 4892 railway passengers died due to falling from the train. The Committee was informed that the Government Railway Police (GRP) registered FIRs against the Railways under Section 174 of the CrPC in cases of unnatural deaths on tracks and railway premises.
The Railway Board told the Parliamentary Committee that the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel have saved the lives of passengers by showing promptness at various stations. In 2021, the lives of 601 passengers were saved by the alert jawans of the RPF.
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