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Tragic accident in India/ More than 200 dead and 900 injured

2023-06-03 08:18:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in India's Odisha on Friday, according to officials in the eastern state of the country, in India's deadliest rail accident in more than a decade.

According to officials, the death toll is expected to rise. Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha's fire department, told Reuters that 207 bodies had been recovered so far.

Footage from the scene showed rescue teams searching the wreckage of one of the trains for survivors.

Videos shared on social media showed ambulances arriving and people being pulled from the overturned train carriages.

Hundreds of young people lined up outside a government hospital in Odisha's Soro to donate blood. Rescue teams have been mobilized across the country, federal minister for railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a tweet late Friday.

The collision occurred around 7:00 pm local time when an express train traveling from Bangalore to Howrah in West Bengal derailed and collided with the Coromandel Express, traveling from Kolkata to Chennai, railway officials said.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the authorities' priority was to "send the survivors to hospitals".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet that rescue operations were continuing and that those affected were being given "all possible assistance"./VOA





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