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A villager offers flowers to a female adult elephant lying dead in a paddy field in Panbari village, India, Saturday, Sept. 1. The elephant was hit by a train and killed while crossing railway tracks with a herd of wild Asiatic elephants.
See a PhotoBlog post about another elephant killed by a train in India in August.
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Firemen and policemen investigate the scene where Berlin city train (S-Bahn) derailed, Aug. 21, 2012. Five people were injured as the train derailed between the Tegel and Schulzendorf train stations.
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An S-Bahn city train derailed between the Tegel and Schulzendorf train stations in Berlin, Germany, Aug 21.
At least five people were injured when a Berlin city train (S-Bahn) left the tracks. According to The Local, approximately 50 people were aboard the train when it derailed. Read the full story.
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Vegetable market vendors pull back awnings and their produce off a railway track to allow a cross-country train to dissect through the middle of the town of Maeklong, in Samut Songkhram province, 37 miles west of Bangkok on August 16, 2012.
The bustling market, in the middle of the town, has to scramble from the tracks eight times a day as trains pass.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, center, holds a cabinet meeting to discuss railway ticket pricing on a train leaving Omsk on Aug 6, 2012. Deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich is at left and Enegy Minister Alexander Novak at right.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits a railway museum in the village of Tpoki in Siberia on Aug. 6, 2012.
See more images of Dmitry Medvedev on PhotoBlog.
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Flowers offered by villagers lie near the trunk of wild Asiatic male elephant which was killed after being hit by a train in Kurkuria village about 31 miles east of Gauhati, India on Aug. 2.
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Local villagers push an elephant killed by a passenger train near Panbari railway station 31 miles east from Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on August 2.
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Local villagers spread salt over the body of an elephant for it to decompose during the burial near Panbari railway station on Aug. 2.
A female elephant died on Wednesday after it was hit by a passenger train while crossing a railway track searching for food, forest officials said. Local Indian villagers buried the Asiatic pachyderm near the Panbari railway station in Assam.
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A model presents a creation during the Chevrolet Underground Catwalk, a fashion show in a special driving train of Berlin's subway, on the sidelines of the Berlin Fashion Week on Wednesday in Berlin. The Berlin Fashion Week, presenting the collections of Spring/Summer 2013, is running from July 2 to 8, 2012.
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Models arrive for the Underground Catwalk fashion show in a metro station in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday. Underground Catwalk is part of the annual Fashion Week in Berlin.
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German model Micaela Schaefer presents a creation during the "Underground Catwalk" fashion show in a U-Bahn subway train in Berlin. As the Berlin Fashion Week has pitched up its tent near the Siegessaeule victory column, 17 designers sent their models on Wednesday down a catwalk that was the aisle of a crowded U-Bahn subway train terminating at a rock music club. They presented their collections to an audience limited to 150 people, the organiser said.
See more images of fashion in PhotoBlog.
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Officials and locals gather around the fallen compartments of Doon Express, a passenger train which derailed in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh state, India on Thursday. According to news reports at least five people were killed and about fifty others injured after the passenger train which was traveling from Howrah station, near Calcutta city, to Dehradun in the state of Uttarakhand derailed.
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A volunteer extends a helping hand to a trapped passenger, who's hand can be seen, inside a fallen compartment of Doon Express, a passenger train which derailed.
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Officials inspect the wreckage of the Doon Express.
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Railway officials oversee the clear up operation of the mangled remains of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express after it collided with a stationary goods train near Penukonda, about 105 miles north of Bangalore, India, on May 22, 2012.
The Associated Press reports — A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.
Rescuers worked for about six hours to pull some 70 survivors from the twisted and smoldering wreckage near the southwestern border of Andhra Pradesh state. Read the full story.
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Rescuers evacuate an injured woman from the train.
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Emergency services search for injured passengers under the derailed carriages.
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A woman looks out from the window as she travels on a train in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 17, 2012.
The International Monetary Fund says that Myanmar could be Asia's next boom economy if the country sticks to its new path of political and economic reforms, Agence France Presse reports.
Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin meets U.S. officials on Thursday, stoking expectation the United States might announce a further lifting or suspension of sanctions that would be crucial to opening its long-isolated economy.
See more pictures of Myanmar on PhotoBlog.
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The Luxury train Rovos Rail derailed on Friday in Pretoria, South Africa. The train was en route from Cape Town to Pretoria when 17 carriages derailed. Among the passengers were 30 American tourists.
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The Luxury train Rovos Rail derailed on Friday in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Rescuers work at the site of a train collision in Szczekociny, Poland, March 3. Two trains collided head-on in southern Poland late Saturday, killing several people and injuring around 50 in what appears to be one of the worst rail disasters in the country in recent years.
"The rescue is difficult and complicated," firefighter Jaroslaw Wojtasik told Polish television.
"The damage to the wagons is huge. We have contact with victims. We are approaching very cautiously."
"I felt the blow," said an unnamed survivor. "I hit the person before me. The lights went out. Everything flew. We flew over the compartment like bags. We could hear screams. We prayed."
-- Reported by Reuters
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A Via Rail train rests across the tracks after a derailment in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 26. Three people are confirmed dead with reports of as many as 60 trapped.
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Emergency crews help extract Via Rail employees from a derailed train car in Burlington, Ontario, Feb. 26
Lamarche said no passengers died but dozens were injured. She said 75 people were on board the train traveling from Niagara Falls to Toronto when it derailed Sunday afternoon near Aldershot station.
-- Reported by the Associated Press
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