Two passenger trains – Coromandel Specific and Howrah Superfast Specific – collided in India on a Kolkata to Chennai route.

Prepare officers have reported not less than 280 folks had been killed and over 900 injured when the 2 passenger trains collided within the japanese Indian state of Odisha at this time.

Railroad ministry spokesperson, Amitabh Sharma, said that 10 to 12 coaches of 1 practice derailed, and particles from a few of the mangled coaches fell onto a close-by observe. It was hit by one other passenger practice coming from the other way. As much as 3 coaches of the second practice additionally derailed.

The Howrah Superfast Specific derailed and crashed into the Coromandel Specific, South Jap Railway authorities reported. The derailed Coromandel Specific was touring from Howrah in West Bengal state to Chennai, the capital of southern Tamil Nadu state. The scene of the practice crash is round 220 kilometers (137 miles) southwest of Kolkata.

The highest administrator within the Balasore district, Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, mentioned there are not less than 200 folks trapped within the practice wreckage.

Though there are nonetheless no official studies of the useless and injured, the media is reporting not less than 280 have died. Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena reported that over 900 passengers have been despatched to close by hospitals. The Chief Minister confirmed that their first precedence is to “take away the dwelling to the hospitals.” Almost 500 law enforcement officials and rescue employees with 75 ambulances and buses are responding to the practice crash.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that “all attainable help” is being given to these concerned within the practice crash. PM Modi mentioned he was distressed by the accident and in addition tweeted, “On this hour of grief, my ideas are with the bereaved households. Could the injured get better quickly.”

The Federal Minister for Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw, tweeted that rescue groups have been mobilized from Kolkata in West Bengal and from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar. Minister Vaishnaw added that the Nationwide Catastrophe Response Drive, air drive, and state authorities groups have additionally been mobilized to answer the crash.

The India practice crash is below investigation.