Authorities were scrambling on Sunday to understand the cause of a three-train collision in India that killed at least 288 people, claiming that 'no one responsible' will be spared.
A three-train collision in India resulted in the death of at least 288 people, making it the country's deadliest rail accident in over 20 years.
The country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years left a blood-stained wreckage, with compartments smashed and some carriages flung far from the tracks. It slammed into a freight train and the wreckage derailed an express running north from India's tech hub Bengaluru to Kolkata that was also passing the site.
Authorities said every hospital between the crash site and the state capital of Bhubaneswar, around 200 kilometres away, was receiving victims. Around 200 ambulances - and even buses - were deployed to transport them. Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, said the death toll stood at 288 but was expected to rise further, potentially approaching 380.
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