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Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains accident, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more ...
According to officials, 10 to 12 coaches of one train derailed, which were then hit by another passenger locomotive coming from the opposite direction
A hospital is to start embalming the unidentified victims of India’s worst train crash this century, with more than 100 bodies still yet to be claimed by families.
A total of 296 people died in the crash. [4] Bodies of deceased passengers were taken to a local high school, chosen due to its open spaces and its location close to the crash site. Identification of the bodies was made difficult due to burns and other trauma, which led officials to use the belongings to try and identify the passengers. [23]
The official death toll released was set at 285 killed and over 300 injured in the crash. Unofficial tolls have claimed that up to 1000 or even more were killed, including 90 soldiers. This is possible because although there were only 72 seats in each of the seven general compartments that were involved in the crash, all of them were crowded ...
13 February – An accident was averted after a shepherd spotted a broken rail on the New Delhi–Mumbai main line and reported it to the authorities. [ 209 ] 4 March – A passenger was hurt after he slipped and fell between the platform and a moving train in Gujarat 's Surat railway station .
At least 233 people are dead and hundreds are injured, after a passenger train in India derailed and collided with another locamotive in the eastern state of Odisha.. The Coromandel Express, which ...
Traffic collisions in India are a major source of deaths, injuries and property damage every year. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2021 report states that there were 155,622 fatalities, highest since 2014, out of which 69,240 deaths were due to two-wheelers.