Turkish rescue workers pulled the bodies of two more passengers from a train wreck today, raising to eight the death toll in the nation’s third deadly rail accident in as many weeks.

A passenger train in north-west Turkey ignored a stop signal and rammed an oncoming train, killing six people and injuring 85 others yesterday in the nation’s third deadly rail accident in as many weeks.

The Turkish government was under fire today for ignoring warnings about a new express train that derailed in northwestern Turkey killing 36 people and injuring 81 in one of the country’s worst train disasters.

Railways investigators today began a massive inquiry into Turkey’s worst rail disaster.