The two trains that derailed were the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express. A goods train was also involved in the accident as a passenger train, after it derailed, collided with it.
Two passenger trains derailed Friday in India, killing more than 200 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said.
Balasore: In one of the worst railway disasters in India, at least 233 people were killed and more than 900 injured when three trains collided one after another.
Wielding gas torches and electric cutters, rescuers worked through the night to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one top of another in a horrific sequence, killing at least 233 people and injuring more than 900 in Odisha s Balasore district, officials and witnessed said Saturday.
NEW DELHI (AP) Rescuers waded through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free people on Saturday after two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds as rail cars were flipped over and ma