Indian train crash death toll jumps to 233, with 900 injured, officials say, making the rail accident in eastern Odisha state the country's deadliest in more than a decade
More than 900 people are injured and many are still feared trapped in "heavy accident" involving two passenger trains and freight train in Odisha state, officials and local media say.With rescuers at the crash site pulling the wounded out of the wreckage, fears mounted that the toll could still rise higher. / Photo: Reuters
He added that over 200 ambulances had been called to the scene of the accident in Odisha's Balasore district and 100 additional doctors, on top of 80 already there, had been mobilised. Images broadcast on local stations showed smashed train compartments torn open with blood-stained holes of twisted metal, and scores of passengers lying beside the tracks near Balasore, about 200 kilometres from the state capital Bhubaneswar.
"The casualty figures from the ground or clarity on the number of injured is very difficult to assess for us at this moment," Sharma said, amid reports that many passengers were still believed to be trapped under mangled rail cars.
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