tragedy. words can t capture my deep sorrow. we stand committed to providing all possible assistance to those affected. i laud all those working around the clock, on the ground, and helping out in relief work. a makeshift morgue has just been set up for family members to identify their missing relatives. we have video of that. you look at this moment, this basically sums up the tragedy and the aftermath of one of india s worst train accidents in recent history, as you have a community searching for the remains of their lost loved ones, a community searching for swrts. a community searching for answers. kristie lu stout reporting, thank you. earlier, cnn spoke with a man who survived the horrific crash. asuman says he was sitting toward the back of one of the trains when it suddenly came to
i cannot stress enough how difficult that is. in an effort to, as government officials say, try to get the trains back running through this area by as soon as wednesday morning. now, at least one slight bit of positive news is that the authorities revised the casualty figures for what some officials have described as one of the worst train accidents india has seen in 100 years, down to at least 275 people killed and more than 1,000 wounded. some 100 people who require critical care. in this ferocious heat, our team has seen workers quite literally carrying railway railroad beams by hand to lay them back down here. the hope for any survivors has dwindled to almost nothing at this point. and instead, the focus is on helping the survivors.
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the government has announced the equivalent of 500,000 rupees to the family of each victim who passed away in this terrible disaster. that s a bit more than $6,000. around $1,200, the equivalent, to every person wounded in this terrible incident. it happened friday night after sunset where the collision ultimately involved two passenger trains and a cargo train that all collided in this area. so the area of wreckage, of railroad cars that are overturned, it goes over several hundred meters here in every direction. just to give you a sense of how huge of a disaster zone this is. the railroads are kind of the lifeblood of transport and transit for this massive country. the world s most populous nation. more than 13 million people move around by rail every day here. but india also has, tragically,
watching cnn newsroom. more on one of our top stories this hour. officials in india say the country s worst train crash in decades was likely caused by a change in the railway s electronic signaling system. authorities are now clearing the wreckage after ending their search for survivors. cnn s ivan watson is at the site of the crash, and he joins us now live with more. ivan, i understand you just arrived. share with us your first impressions. reporter: yeah, sure. this is a massive disaster zone. because by the government s count there were at least 21 railway cars from three different trains that were knocked off the track. so i m going to zoom in and show you kind of one stretch of the tracks where the recovery effort is under way. you ve got heavy machinery there dicing. you also have hundreds of workers who are doing heavy manual labor in ferocious heat and humidity right now.