The collision flipped Coromandel Express's coaches onto another track, causing the incoming Yesvantpur-Howrah Express from the opposite side also to derail, she said.
going back now to our top story, the devastating rail crash in india. the indian railway minister has said in the last hour the cause and people responsible for that crash have been identified. officials in the state of odisha have downwardly revised the number of dead, 275. joining me now is a local journalist. what are your reactions to the comments of the railway minister? and we seem to be having a few problems connecting with sandy. let me try and ask that question againjust to check let me try and ask that question again just to check whether you can hear us. what are your thoughts on the comments from the railway
bbc news, balasore, odisha. so, as we ve heard, a lot of questions remain about exactly how the india train accident happened. the bbc verify team have been analysing what we know so far. jake horton from the team is in the newsroom with more. we at bbc verify have been looking at the circumstances surrounding the deadly rail crash in india. we ve been looking at exactly how and why it happened on friday evening. the image behind me here shows the aftermath in odisha. and aerial footage taken today shows a sheer scale of destruction. three trains were involved, and you can see several passenger carriages derailed and debris strewn across the tracks. this close up image shows the front of the coromandel express. this is the train which first collided. it hit a stationary freight train, and authorities have said today this freight train was full of iron ore, which meant it barely moved, and the passenger train seen behind me took the full force of the collision. investigators have also s
museum in new york city, it officially opened on the 2nd ofjune yesterday, with overwhelming visitors. former student leader of the 1989 tiananmen square protest, speaking to us there from tokyo. thank you so much for your time. thank you for having me. in india, rescue efforts have ended after the county s worst rail crash this century. 288 people have died and more than 1,000 have been injured. the incident took place in the eastern state of odisha and it s thought some 2,000 passengers were on board the two passenger trains involved. our south asia correspondent archana shukla has visited a hospital where some of the victims are being sent. every 30 minutes, an ambulance like this comes into this
jake hortonis in the newsroom with more. bbc verify had been looking at the circumstances surrounding the deadly rail crash in india. we ve been looking at exactly how and why it happened on friday evening. the image behind me here shows the aftermath in odisha. and aerial footage taken today shows a sheer scale of destruction. three trains were involved and you can see several passenger carriages derailed and debris strewn across the tracks. this close up image shows the front of the coromandel express. this is the train which first collided. it hit a stationary freight train. and authorities have said today this freight train was full of iron ore, which meant it barely moved. and the passenger train seen behind me, took the full force of the collision. investigators have also said this was likely down to a signalling failure. so let s look a bit how this could have happened. there were two passenger trains involved. there was a coromandel express highlighted in red behind me here tra