More than 280 people were killed and 900 injured in an passenger train crash in eastern India on Friday, prompting a vast rescue operation that continued into Saturday morning, officials said.
NEW DELHI —
Rescue workers gather around damaged carriages at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, on Saturday.About 1,200 rescue workers with 115 ambulances, 50 buses and 45 mobile health units responded, officials said. The Press Trust of India news agency said the derailed Coromandel Express was traveling from Howrah in West Bengal state to Chennai, the capital of southern Tamil Nadu state.
Another passenger, Gobind Mondal, told News18 Bangla he had given up all hope of survival after the train car he was on crashed.
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