At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in India’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade. | Reuters
“I was there at the site and I can see blood, broken limbs and people dying around me,” an eyewitness told Reuters by phone.Rescue teams have been mobilized from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar and Kolkata in West Bengal, federal Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a tweet late on Friday.
Three National Disaster Response Force teams are at the site of the accident, and six more teams are being mobilized, the country’s National Disaster Response Force said. The collision occurred at about 7pm local time when the Howrah Superfast Express, running from Bangalore to Howrah, West Bengal, derailed and became entangled with the Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, railway officials said.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said authorities’ priority was “removing the living to the hospitals”. Rescue operations were underway at the site and “all possible assistance” was being given to those affected, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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