Train car on fire near the Jodhpur railway station in Jodhpur

An Indian railways staff member covers his face as he approaches a train car on fire near the Jodhpur railway station in Jodhpur on July 13, 2012.

The train system has a notoriously bad accident record, with a recent official report revealing almost 15,000 people are killed every year crossing rail tracks — a figure that the government described as a “massacre”.

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