At least 207 people killed and hundreds injured in train crash in eastern India

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Last edited Fri Jun 2, 2023, 06:48 PM - Edit history (3)

Source: The Guardian

At least 207 people have been killed and about 900 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Express, railway officials said on Friday.

The Howrah Superfast Express derailed and became entangled with the Coromandel Express, South Eastern Railway authorities said in a statement. Media reports had earlier said the crash was between the Coromandel Express and a goods train.

The death toll is expected to increase, the state chief secretary, Pradeep Jena, said in a tweet. Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director general of the fire department in Odisha, told Reuters that 207 bodies had been recovered so far.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/02/dozens-killed-in-train-crash-in-eastern-india

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(updated; earlier figures were at least 50 dead and 350 injured)

[Backseat Driver]

1. Updated again 18:26 EST: 207+ dead; 900 injured n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Thank you (nt)

[electric_blue68]

3. Geeeebz. : ( Poor people, rescuers, witnesses, family, friends

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. One passenger train seems to have been directed onto the wrong line, where it hit a freight train

The derailed carriages were then hit by the other express train.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that a signal was given to Coromandel Express to enter the main line but it was taken off and the train entered the loop line, where it crashed into a goods train parked there, reports PTI.

The Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express which was coming at high speed crashed into the coaches of Coromandel Express that had scattered on the adjacent track.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/odisha-train-accident-heres-how-three-trains-crashed-into-each-other-leaving-bloodbath-on-tracks/articleshow/100720394.cms

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Stuart G]

6. Kick

[Bucky]

7. Absolutely horrifying. Death count is at 288 now. They're still recovering bodies.

[Skittles]

8. omg