At least 261 people have died in India’s worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country. | Reuters
Surviving passenger Anubha Das said he would never forget the scene. “Families crushed away, limbless bodies and a bloodbath on the tracks,” he said.
Families of the dead will receive 1 million rupees , while the seriously injured will get 200,000 rupees, with 50,000 rupees for minor injuries, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Some state governments have also announced compensation. The collision occurred around 7 p.m. on Friday when the Howrah Superfast Express from Bengaluru to Howrah in West Bengal collided with the Coromandel Express from Kolkata to Chennai.
According to Indian Railways, its network transports more than 13 million people every day. But the state-run monopoly has had a patchy safety record because of aging infrastructure.
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