Smashed train compartments were torn open in the impact late on Friday, leaving the wreckage stained with blood. theSun thesundaily India traincollision railaccident Balasore
A rescue worker is seen near the carriage wreckage of a three-train collision near Balasore, in India’s eastern state of Odisha, on June 3, 2023/AFPPix: At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a horrific three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years.
Researcher Anubhav Das was in the last carriage of one of the trains when he heard “screeching, horrifying sounds coming from a distance”.“I saw bloodied scenes, mangled bodies and one man with a severed arm being desperately helped by his injured son,“ the 27-year-old told AFP.There was confusion about the exact sequence of events, but reports cited railway officials as saying that a signalling error sent the Coromandal Express running south from Kolkata to Chennai onto a side track.
The rescue effort was declared over on Saturday evening after emergency personnel had combed the mangled wreckage for survivors and laid scores of bodies out under white sheets beside the tracks. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site and injured passengers being treated in hospital and said “no one responsible” for the train crash would be spared.
Odisha state's chief secretary Pradeep Jena confirmed that about 900 injured people had been hospitalised. At Bhadrak District Hospital, bloodied and shocked survivors were receiving treatment in crowded wards.
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