Debris was piled high at the crash site near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, where some carriages had been tossed far from the tracks and others flipped over entirely. | via philstarlife
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Smashed train compartments were torn open in the impact late on Friday, June 2, leaving the wreckage stained with blood. Rescue workers recover victims' bodies from the carriage wreckage of a three-train collision near Balasore, in India's eastern state of Odisha.Over the next few hours the 20-year-old saw"more death and grief" than he could have"ever imagined," he told AFP.
Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, said the death toll stood at 288 but was expected to go higher, potentially approaching 380. 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.
At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in the horrific three-train collision in India.Authorities said every hospital between the crash site and the state capital Bhubaneswar around 200 kilometers away was receiving victims, with 200 ambulances—and even buses—deployed to transport them.
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