Global train accidents with highest fatalities over past decade

At least 48 people were killed and 66 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island's worst rail disaster in at least four decades.

Following is a list of train accidents around the world with the most fatalities over the past decade:

31 October, 2019 - Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan. At least 64 people killed, 30 injured due to a fire on a passenger train

5 September, 2019 - Tanganyika Province, Congo. More than 50 people killed when a passenger train derails

19 October, 2018 - Amritsar, India. More than 50 people killed and more than 200 injured when a train runs into a crowd celebrating a festival

25 November, 2016 - Semnan, Iran. 49 people killed, 103 injured when derailed passenger train runs into broken down passenger train

20 November, 2016 - Pukhrayan, India. 150 people killed, 150 injured when a passenger train derails

21 October, 2016 - Eseka, Cameroon. 79 people killed, more than 550 injured when a train derails

24 July, 2013 - Santiago de Compostela, Spain. At least 79 people killed, 140 injured when a high speed train derails on a curve

17 November, 2012 - Manfalut, Egpyt. At least 50 children killed when a school bus is hit by a train

22 February, 2012 - Buenos Aires, Argentina. 51 people killed, more than 700 injured when a train crashes into a buffer stop at a station

10 July, 2011 - Fatephur, India. 70 people killed, more than 300 injured when a mail train derails