While interacting with the media, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she got information that the death toll in the Odisha train accident might exceed 500, to which, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishaw intervened immediately and said the death toll is 238.
More than 230 people have died in the tragic train accident in Odisha s Balasore district on Friday evening, in which 17 coaches of two express trains, Coromandel Express and SMVT-Howrah Super Fast Express, derailed.
On Friday evening, 17 coaches of the Coromandel Express and SMVT-Howrah Super Fast Express derailed, leading to one of the worst railway accidents in the country in the last 15 years.More