A freight train collided with a stationary passenger train in India on Monday, 17 June, causing 15 deaths and injuring nearly 60 more. The main cause of the accident seems to be driver error the freight train conductor ignored a signal.

Among the victims, were the freight train driver and a guard from the passenger train, as Reuters mentioned. The passenger convoy, the so-called Kanchanjunga Express, was travelling between Kolkata and Tripura circumnavigating Bangladesh. The collision took place near Siliguri, not far from the northern Bangladeshi border. Three carriages of this train were sent off the rails.

This tragedy occurred almost exactly one year after the deadliest railway crash in India. On 2 June 2023, 288 people lost their lives and once 1,000 were injured when a passenger train travelling at 126 km\h collided with a stationary freight train. This accident was attributed to signalling system failure.

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