More Than 120 Dead After Train Collision in India

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1 年前

At least 120 people were killed and hundreds were injured when a passenger train collided with derailed cars of another train in India’s Odisha state on Friday night, June 2, according to government officials.

A large rescue operation was ongoing at the time of writing.

Odisha Chief Secretary Sri Pradeep Jena said a Coromandel Express train was traveling from Kolkata to Chennai when it crashed into the derailed cars of a freight train at Bahanaga, a community south of Balasore, at 7:20 pm. A second passenger train was also involved in the crash, Jena said.

This footage from Focus Balasore, a local news outlet, shows crews searching through mangled train cars at the site of the crash.

Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik was due to visit the crash site on Saturday morning, his office said. Credit: Focus Balasore via Storyful