In February, 2017, PM Narendra Modi at a public meeting in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh said that the Kanpur train accident was a terror attack and the conspiracy to kill over 140 people was made from across the border.
This is one of the most death-dealing train crashes in India, including the Coromandel Express and Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express in which till now 233 people were killed and about 900 injured in Odisha. Rescue ops are underway at the site of the mishap.