Terming the horrific train accident in Odisha's Balasore as an extremely serious incident, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the government will not leave any stone unturned to provide best medical facility to the injured, .
The Odisha train accident is the first such pile-up on Indian tracks. Since 1993, 28 parliamentary reports on the railways have been presented along with a safety report that highlighted need for a system like Kavach to detect on-course collisions
About 16 hours after the accident, the rescue operation was announced to be complete on the afternoon of Saturday, June 3, by the Railways, following which restoration work commenced.