BALASORE, India: At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a horrific three-train collision in India, officials said on Saturday (Jun 3), the country's deadliest rail accide
in India, officials said on Saturday , the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years.
Researcher Anubhav Das was in the last carriage of one of the trains when he heard"screeching, horrifying sounds coming from a distance"."I saw bloodied scenes, mangled bodies and one man with a severed arm being desperately helped by his injured son," the 27-year-old told AFP.
The rescue effort was declared over on Saturday evening after emergency personnel had combed the mangled wreckage for survivors and laid scores of bodies out under white sheets beside the tracks. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site and injured passengers being treated in hospital and said that"no one responsible" for the train crash would be spared.
Friday's crash ranks as its third worst, and the deadliest since 1995, when two express trains collided in Firozabad, near Agra, killing more than 300 people. Authorities said that every hospital between the crash site and the state capital Bhubaneswar around 200km away was receiving victims, with 200 ambulances - and even buses - deployed to transport them.
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