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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of the deceased in the train derailment in Odisha Balasore.

With the bogies lying in a heap, people climbed on top of the wreckage and pulled out the injured.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of those killed in a train derailment in Odisha's Balasore on Friday.

The Indian railways has initiated a high-level probe into the triple train crash in Odisha as the opposition leaders raised questions about the signalling system of the railways which purportedly led to one of the worst rail disasters in the country

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the rail accident of the Coromandel Express train accident and spoke to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to take stoke of the situation., India News, Times Now

PM Modi was scheduled to flag off the Goa-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express through video link on Saturday morning. -- aaa

At around 7 pm, 10-12 coaches of the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed near Baleswar and fell on the opposite track. After some time, another train from Yeswanthpur to Howrah dashed into those derailed coaches resulting in the derailment of its 3-4 coaches, , train accident, odisha, Balasore, Ashwini Vaishnaw, indian railways

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday expressed anguish over the train accident involving the Coromandel Express in Odishas Balasore.

Coromandel Express Train Accident: As many as 70 people died and over 350 others were injured in a tragic rail accident when Four coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed in Odisha after it collided head on with a goods train in Balasore district on Friday evening., India News, Times Now

Earlier, on Friday, PM Modi expressed grief over the incident in which several coaches of two passenger trains derailed after colliding with a goods train.