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At least 120 people were killed and another 800 were injured. in India after a passenger train derailed and several overturned carriages collided with another train heading in
At least 120 people were killed and another 800 were injured. in India after a passenger train derailed and several overturned carriages collided with another train heading in the opposite direction, an Indian news agency reported. AND SO ONwho cited official sources.
The accident occurred at 19:20 local time (13:50 GMT) near the station in the city of Bahanaga in the state of Odisha, where rescuers continue to work quickly to help possible injured people stay where they are.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Railways, the accident occurred when the first passenger train on a route between Shalimar in Kolkata and Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu derailed, followed by the derailment of a second train that collided with it traveling from Yeswantpur to Bangalore. at Howrah in Calcutta.
In that A third freight train was also involved in the accident. as Secretary General of Odisha Pradeep Kumar told Indian television NDTV.
The footage of the accident shows that at least 15 cars turned over on the rails, and rescuers are trying to cut them to get inside and help the victims. people who remain trapped.
Three teams from the National Disaster Response Force, four units from the Orissa Rapid Response Force, more than 15 fire brigades, 30 doctors, 200 policemen and 60 ambulances. They were mobilized to the scene, added Kumar, who said rescue operations would continue for the next few hours despite the darkness.
Odisha’s head of government, Naveen Patnaik, is at the office of the Regional Disaster Management Authority to direct operations and announced that he would travel to the scene of the accident.
The Ministry of Railways canceled more than a dozen trains that passed through the damaged section and rerouted several, while Minister Ashwini Vaishnav announced more than $12,000 in compensation for the deceased. about $2,500 for the seriously injured and $606 for those with minor injuries.
This is the worst train accident India has experienced in the last decade, which, while used to this kind of accident, is usually not as fatal.
According to the latest report from India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in In 2020, there were 13,018 road accidents in which 11,986 people died. and 11,127 others were injured, with collisions accounting for 70% of crashes.
With 68,000 kilometers, the Indian rail network is the fourth longest in the world after the United States, Russia and China, with about 21,650 trains and 7,349 stations across the country and carrying about 23 million passengers daily. . (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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