Odisha train accident: Army deployed to assist in evacuation, treatment of injured
Army teams have been deployed to assist in the evacuation and treatment of injured citizens in the Odisha triple train accident that claimed the lives of 238 people.
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Army teams have been deployed to assist in the evacuation and treatment of injured citizens in the Odisha triple train accident that claimed the lives of 238 people.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for Odisha following the horrific train accident in which nearly 300 people died.
At least 50 people died and 350 people were injured as a three-sway accident involving bengaluru-howrah superfast express, the coromandel express and goods train on three separate tracks occurred at bahanagar in odisha’s balasore district. a railway official said that several coaches of 12864 bengaluru-howrah superfast express travelling to howrah, derailed at bahanagabazar and fell on the up line. “these derailed coaches collided with 12841 shalimarchennai coromandel express and its coaches capsized too,”
Over 230 people were killed and more than 900 injured when three trains collided one after another in a horrific sequence in Odisha's Balasore district.
As the death toll in the Odisha train accident involving two express trains -- Bengaluru-Howrah Express and Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express -- and a goods train in Balasore has risen to 238, we look back at the most tragic train accidents that has jolted the nation in the past.