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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik arrived at the accident site in Balasore, where a tragic collision between three trains claimed the lives of 233 people and left over 900 injured.
PM Narendra Modi on Saturday convened a meeting to review the situation in relation to the rail accident in Odisha’s Balasore district.
Involving two passenger trains and another carrying goods, the accident saw one train ram so hard into another that carriages were lifted high into the air, twisting and then smashing off the tracks.
It could have been a human error that led to the horrific train accident in Odisha in which over 280 persons were killed.
This is one of the most death-dealing train crashes in India, including the Coromandel Express and Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express in which till now 233 people were killed and about 900 injured in Odisha. Rescue ops are underway at the site of the mishap.