Drone footage on Saturday shows the grave extent of the passenger train collision in eastern India which has killed nearly 300 people and injured hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades.
The state government has announced a day of mourning. At least three trains were involved in the accident on Friday night. There is no official version of the sequence of events.
It's not clear why a second train approaching the accident areas was not stopped in time. But the Indian Railways has launched an investigation into the accident. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was"distressed" by the train accident and that in the"hour of grief" his"thoughts are with the bereaved families." He has called a meeting of senior officials to review the situation.
India has one of the largest railway networks in the world where an estimated 13 million people travel on trains every day. But despite recent huge investments in a bid to modernize, a large chunk of the country's railway infrastructure is old and aging.
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