More than 200 dead and at least 900 injured following multi-train collision in India
A collision between multiple trains in India’s eastern state Odisha has left at least 207 people dead and 900 injured as the recovery of bodies continues.
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A collision between multiple trains in India’s eastern state Odisha has left at least 207 people dead and 900 injured as the recovery of bodies continues.
Doctors from AIIMS-Bhubaneswar have been dispatched to Balasore and Cuttack in Odisha to assist in the relief operations at site of the train accident that killed at least 261 people, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday.
In a devastating train collision involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train, over 230 individuals lost their lives while around 900 others sustained injuries, officials reported on Saturday.
The train collision in Balasore last night, which resulted in the loss of over 230 lives and left approximately 900 injured, occurred on a stretch of railway tracks where the preventive safety system developed by the Indian Railways was not installed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Balasore in Odisha on Saturday, where a tragic train accident took place, resulting in the loss of nearly 300 lives and leaving over 900 people injured.