Sikhio train disaster

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On 14 January 2026, at 09:13 (ICT; UTC+07:00), a construction crane fell on a passenger train with 157 passengers on board in Sikhio district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, killing 30 and injuring 69 others. The train involved was an express train from Krung Thep Aphiwat in Bangkok to Ubon Ratchathani. The accident took place at the construction site of the Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway network under Contract 3–4 (Lam Takhong to Sikhio), associated with China's Belt and Road Initiative and awarded to a joint-venture of Italian-Thai Development (ITD) company and the China Railway Engineering Corporation No. 10 in 2020. The section of track where the accident occurred was at the intersection of the elevated high-speed railroad platform and the preexisting railway on ground level. The intersection was created due to the minimum radius of curvature required for high-speed trains, which requires more space and causes overlap. At the time of the accident, the project was estimated to be 99% complete. The large launching gantry crane that collapsed onto the track was being used to lift concrete segments to assemble the elevated deck for the railroad. During construction of the high-speed railway, traffic on the ground-level railway continued. Prior to the accident, one other construction project managed by the ITD-CREC No. 10 Joint Venture, as well as another managed by a different joint venture headed by ITD, suffered structural collapses in 2025: the State Audit Office building collapse on 28 March as a result of the 2025 Myanmar earthquake, and the Rama III-Dao Khanong Expressway collapse on 15 March. ITD former president Premchai Karnasuta, CREC No. 10 local director Zhang Chuanling, and 21 others were charged in August for gross negligence and manslaughter.