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 one of India's worst rail accidents in years.
Posted: Jun 02, 2023 2:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes agoA survivor of the train crash said he ended up at the bottom of a pile of bodies after 10 to 15 people fell on top of him.Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director general of the fire department in Odisha, told Reuters that 207 bodies had been recovered so far.
"I was there at the site and I can see blood, broken limbs and people dying around me," an eyewitness told Reuters by phone. The collision occurred at about 7 p.m. 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 the priority was "removing the living to the hospitals."
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