The quake occurred at 8.29pm UAE time
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Most of the deaths occur at unmanned railroad crossings, the panel said in a report. About 6,000 people die on Mumbai’s crowded suburban rail network alone, it said.
Another 1,000 people die when they fall from crowded coaches, when trains collide or coaches derail, it said.
The High Level Safety Review Committee was set up by the government in September after a spate of train accidents on the world’s fourth-largest rail network. Around 20 million people travel on the nearly 40,000-mile (64,000-kilometer) system each day.
The report, released over the weekend, called on the government to urgently replace all railroad crossings with bridges or overpasses at an estimated cost of 500 billion rupees ($10 billion) over the next five years.
“No civilized society can accept such a massacre on their railway system,” the report said, referring to the crossing deaths.
The committee acknowledged that previous recommendations from earlier rail safety panels had been ignored.
The committee, headed by Anil Kakodkar, a leading scientist, blamed railway authorities for the “grim picture,” saying there were lax safety standards and poor management.
It said local managers are not given adequate power to make crucial decisions and that safety regulations are also breached because of severe manpower shortages.
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