Railway officials at the Chennai Central station are trying to locate the passengers on the Coromandel Express that was involved in the tragic accident.
Odisha’s Chief Secretary said that 500 units of blood were collected overnight and thanked volunteers for aiding the relief work in the train tragedy, in which over 900 persons were estimated to have been injured.
The route of the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express, which was one of the two passenger trains involved in the accident, travels through a number of districts in the state. The train had stops at Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry, Tadepalligudem, Eluru, and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. Available official information says that 178 passengers on the train had booked tickets to these