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Railway authorities in China have said design flaws in signal equipment and human error are to blame for Saturday's deadly train crash in which 39 people were killed, according to the state news agency, Xinhua. A Chinese railway research institute took responsibility on Thursday for a flaw in signalling equipment.

Rescue workers pulled more bodies Monday from the mangled wreckage of a passenger train that derailed in northern India, as the death toll climbed to 67.

Roughly 30 people were injured Sunday morning as their PATH train overshot the platform in Hoboken.

A train crash in central Indonesia killed at least 43 people and injured dozens Saturday, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. The toll was expected to rise with some bodies still trapped in the mangled wreckage.

Investigators were searching for bodies in a mangled wreck Saturday, a day after two trains crashed and killed at least 98 people in eastern India, officials said.

Two commuter trains collided at rush hour in a Brussels suburb Monday, killing a number of people, officials said.

A six-car red line train has derailed near the Farragut North station in downtown Washington, Metro officials said.

Twenty-two people were killed and several dozen injured in a Russian train crash on Friday, Russian news agencies said, and one source suggested it could have been caused by a bomb.

A freight train derailed and plowed into houses in a small Italian town, setting off an explosion and fire that killed at least 12 people — many as they slept in their homes — and injured at least 50, officials said Tuesday.