Nearly 3,000 people monitored by the Railway Ministry's war room worked round the clock for 51 hours to ensure the tracks were laid, bodies cleared and trains running at the Balasore triple train tragedy site that claimed 275 lives.
AFP At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Wreckage debris was piled high at the crash site near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, where some carriages had been tossed far from the tracks and others flipped over entirely. Smashed train compartments were torn open in the impact late on Friday, leaving blood-stained holes in their sides.
“The toll could have been much higher had the Odisha government not intervened in time. The mobilisation of the ODRAF and fire service teams saved 1,200 injured,” Odisha Industries Secretary Hemant Sharma said.
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