The Fatuha train crash was a rail transport accident that occurred on 4 April 1998, in India.
Removal of fishplates led to the packed Howrah-Danapur Express jumping tracks, killing at least 11 passengers and injuring more than 50 near Fatuha Station in Fatuha city on the Eastern Railway's Danapur division.
[1] Local citizens assisted the injured at the scene until authorities arrived.
Eleven passengers died at the scene, and one succumbed to his injuries at Patna Medical College hospital.
[2] "Prima facie, the cause of the accident is removal of fish plates on the right side of the tracks," railway officials said.