New Railway Drama, Friday, June 2, India. At least 120 people were killed and 850 injured in a collision between at least three trains in the country’s east, according to a preliminary report. Indian Railways director Amitabh Sharma told AFP that the two passenger trains were “active participant in the accident” and that the third train, a freight train that stood at the scene of the tragedy, “also involved in the accident”, without providing further details.
“At the last count, we have more than 120 dead, and this figure is increasing because there are many serious injuries, head injuries,” Sudhanshu Sarandji, Director General of the Odisha State Fire Service, told AFP. “A very sad event and the prospects are not the best”, he added.
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Many passengers may also have been trapped under the metal frames of the carriages, and officials fear the death toll is higher. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said to himself “suffered”. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnow, meanwhile, announced that he was on his way to the crash site, assuring that the “air force” had also arrived. “mobilized”.
There have been several other rail accidents in India in the past, but railway safety has improved significantly in recent years thanks to massive new investment and technological upgrades. The country’s deadliest rail accident occurred on June 6, 1981, when, in the state of Bihar (east), seven carriages of a train crossing a bridge fell into the Bagmati River, killing between 800 and 1,000 people. .
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Friday’s crash was the worst in India after a train plowed into worshipers gathering for a Hindu festival in the northern state of Punjab on October 19, 2018. Result: 60 dead and 90 injured as the crowd walked along the railroad to watch the fireworks show. Another particularly deadly recent accident: November 20, 2016, when the Patna-Indore Express, carrying 2,000 people, derailed early in the morning in rural Uttar Pradesh (north), causing 146 deaths and almost 180 injuries .
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