BHUBANESWAR - At least 288 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in India’s Odisha state, a government official said on Saturday, making the rail accident the country’s deadliest in more than a decade.
Mr Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of the Odisha state fire department, confirmed the new number to AFP.
The death toll is expected to increase, state Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said in a tweet.
He added that more than 200 ambulances had been called to the scene of the accident in eastern state Odisha’s Balasore district and 100 additional doctors, on top of 80 already there, had been mobilised.
Images from the scene showed rescuers climbing up the mangled wreck of one of the trains to find survivors, while passengers called for help and sobbed next to the wreckage.
Early on Saturday morning, video footage showed police officials moving bodies covered in white cloth off the railway tracks.
Videos shared on social media showed the arrival of several ambulances and people being pulled out of the upturned train coaches.
“I was there at the site and I can see blood, broken limbs and people dying around me,” an eyewitness told Reuters by phone.
An extensive search and rescue operation has been mounted, involving hundreds of fire department personnel, police officers and sniffer dogs. National Disaster Response Force teams were also at the site.
Hundreds of young people lined up outside a government hospital in Odisha’s Soro to donate blood.
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2023-06-03 03:31:15Z
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