up the mangled wreckage to try to find survivors. some who escaped watched on in shock. |translation: ten, 15 people fell| on me when the accident happened and everything was haywire. i hurt my hand. and also the back of my neck. sirens. more than 200 ambulances attended the scene and more than 100 additional doctors were mobilised. they worked through the night to try to rescue those trapped inside the carriages and get them to nearby hospitals. it s not immediately clear what led to the derailment of the first train and why the second didn t manage to stop in time. india has one of the largest and busiest train networks in the world, but accidents are common despite successive governments investing hundreds of millions of pounds to improve infrastructure. indian prime minister narendra modi said he was distressed by the incident and his thoughts were with the bereaved families, tweeting, rescue ops are underway at the site of the mishap and all possible assistance is bein
its coaches then overturned and were hit by another passenger train coming in the opposite direction. but officials dispute this, saying all three trains were on different tracks, and they are still investigating why the coromandel express derailed. rescue efforts went on nonstop for over 2a hours. even slicing through the mangled coaches to pull out those trapped. this man survived the crash. translation: when i came out of the train i saw a lot of people | had reached the site. i lost everything. we sat down. those who were seriously injured were brought out, so i had to wait. through the day, ambulances have been rushing passengers for critical medical care. since last night, every 30 minutes an ambulance has been ferrying critically injured passengers from the accident site to this trauma centre in this hospital. this is the biggest hospital in the state of odisha, but it is still a three hour drive from where the accident happened. we understand since last night hundreds
some railway workers have told the bbc the coromandel express going from kolkata in the east to chennai collided with a stationary freight train on the same track, the coach is overturned and were hit by another passenger train coming in the opposite direction. but officials dispute this saying all three trains were on different tracks and they are still investigating why the coromandel express derailed. rescue efforts went on nonstop for over 2a hours. even slicing through the mangled coaches to pull out those trapped. this man survived the crash. translation: when i came out of the train i saw a lot of people | had reached the site. i have lost everything. we sat down. those seriously injured were brought out so i had to wait. through the day, ambulances have been rushing passengers for critical medical care. since last night, every 30 minutes an ambulance has been ferrying critically injured passengers from the accident site to this trauma centre in this hospital. but stil
for their family members, some of them distressed, not knowing the conditions of those who are already here. this is one of the deadliest train accidents that india has seen in decades. and the numbers are only on the rise, both on the casualty side and of those injured. and a lot of questions that the government and the central ministry will have to answer. indian prime minister narendra modi visited the scene and a local hospital and met some of the victims. here s what he had to say. translation: this incident is very serious for the government. orders for carrying out a thorough investigation have been given, and whoever is found guilty will get the strictest punishment. that person will not be spared. there are varying accounts of how this train crash happened, including questions about which train derailed first. the exact sequence of events is still under investigation, but bbc teams have been trying to piece it together. we know the accident involved three trains. the
Due to the derailment, some trains have been affected along this route, with 41 trains being cancelled while 18 trains were partially cancelled 9 trains diverted and 22 trains rescheduled till now. - Western Railways: Over 40 Trains Cancelled, 22 Rescheduled After Goods Train Derails At Palghar; Mumbai Locals Also Affected