Nearly 300 dead and over 1,000 injured in a three train crash in India

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/wailing-for-help-passengers-and-bystanders-tell-of-india-train-crash-horror

The carriages from three trains sat piled high in an entangled wreck. Some lay sideways, others had been thrown so high into the air on impact that they had fallen back to earth twisted and upside down.

A line of dozens of bodies covered in white sheets were laid out next to the wreckage waiting for vehicles – ambulances, local cars, even tractors – to take them away to local hospitals. Passengers’ possessions lay scattered around them, shoes and toys and suitcases thrown open.

Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains that derailed
India train crash: at least 288 killed and 803 injured in Odisha state

This was the aftermath of the deadliest train crashes in India since independence, when on Friday evening the Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata in West Bengal to Chennai in Tamil Nadu, switched rails and collided with a freight train in the eastern state of Odisha close to Bahanagar Bazar station, while travelling at around 80mph (130km/h). The freight train in turn derailed some carriages of the Howrah Superfast Express train, which was travelling in the opposite direction. Together over 2,000 passengers had been in both

[RKP5637]

1. OMG!!! n/t

[malaise]

8. 300 - my bad

Still that is a horrific number

[femmedem]

2. Horrific but you might want to edit your subject line.

You've got a typo that makes the death toll even worse than it is.

[LanguageLover]

4. Well pointed out............

Even I was shocked to read that 3000 people had died in this train crash. How could that happen in a single train crash? - I thought.

The title should have read 300-killed and not 3000. The detailed message does specify 288 dead. Any number dead is horrific but at least it is not close to three thousand.

[malaise]

9. Just saw it

Thanks

[lamp_shade]

3. Correct your title please.

[onecaliberal]

5. Omg. This is awful.

[mopinko]

6. indian trains r not like trains in other places.

they are wider gauge, i believe, and the passenger cars are like cattle cars. ppl packed like sardines.
must have been a true horror.

[relayerbob]

7. Agreed, awful, but edit the headline, please

[Duppers]

10. OMG!

This terrible accident was near the east coast of India.


Train routes in India are now of heightened interest to me because of the probability I may be traveling on them in the future. (Yep, I'm too old for any more international travel but there's a wedding I'll have to attend.)

[malaise]

11. Take care

This may have been a signal problem.
Maybe they should pause on the superstition over knowledge.

[Duppers]

12. Thank you! And I agree...

superstition should never supersede knowledge.



Edit to add story...
My son is dating and in love with a lovely Indian girl and they've become very serious. Weddings are being discussed, one here and one in Locknow which is only 3hrs from the Himalayas. Being that close, why not go? I'm already excited. I've have traveled across the U.S. by car a couple of times; have lived in Cambridge, England for 3yrs and traveled in Europe...and in China for 6 weeks, but have never been in India...or in South America or in Africa. (Wouldn't Africa be a dream? My favorite movie is Out of Africa.). I'm almost too old to do much any more tho.