Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds.
injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.
"By 10 p.m. we were able to rescue the survivors. After that it was about picking up dead bodies," Sudhanshu Sarangi, director of Odisha state's fire and emergency department, told The Associated Press. "This is very, very tragic. I have never seen anything like this in my career." He later visited a hospital where he walked around inquiring from doctors about the treatment being given to the injured, and spoke to some of them, moving from bed to bed in a ward.
D.B. Shinde, a district administrator, said only five to six bodies remained trapped under a damaged coach and were difficult to recover.About 200 of the severely injured people were transferred to specialty hospitals in other cities in Odisha, said P.K. Jena, the state's top administrative official. Another 200 were discharged after receiving medical care and the rest were being treated in local hospitals, he added. Scores of people also showed up to donate blood.
The rescue operation was slowed because two train cars were pressed together by the impact of the accident, Jena said. Passenger Vandana Kaleda said that people were falling on each other as her coach shook violently and veered off the tracks.
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India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in country's deadliest rail accident in decadesRescuers are wading through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free people after two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 280 people. Hundreds of others were trapped inside more than a dozen mangled rail cars, in one of the country’s deadliest train crashes in decades. The accident, which happened about 137 miles southwest of Kolkata on Friday night, led to a chaotic scene as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches to free survivors. P.K. Jena, the state’s top administrative official, said about 900 people were injured in the accident in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha. The cause was under investigation.
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India train crash kills over 280, injures 900Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds.
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No more survivors located after train derailment in India kills over 280, injures 900Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people, officials said Saturday.
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India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in country's deadliest rail accident in decadesThe accident, which happened about 137 miles southwest of Kolkata on Friday night, led to a chaotic scene as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches to free survivors.
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India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in country's deadliest rail accident in decadesThe accident, which happened about 137 miles southwest of Kolkata on Friday night, led to a chaotic scene as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches to free survivors.
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