Train History: Crash in bangladesh

Today's train history post is not a happy one. On January 15, 1989 in Maizdi, Bangladesh, a train carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed head-on with a mail train, killing at leaast 110 people and injuring as many as 1,000 others. Many people were riding on the roof of the trains and in between the cars.  This is so tragic! Especially since a lot of the passengers were not even seated in the train itself but were sitting on the roof and in between the cars. While trains are magnificent machines, they can also be quite dangerous and deadly.