Deadly India train crash has killed over 280 people, and injures close to 900 in one of nation’s worst rail disasters, Daily Laud reports.
The death toll had risen to over 280 Saturday as rescuers in eastern India reportedly continued to sift through the wreckage of one of the country’s deadliest train derailments in decades.
More than 900 people were reported to have been injured after a passenger train derailed, causing between 10 and 12 cars to wreck in Odisha, about 137 miles southwest of Kolkata.
Daily Laud noted that some of the debris from the crash scattered onto another track, causing at least three cars from a second passenger train to derail as well, Rail-road Ministry spokesperson Amitabh Sharma said.
Local media reported a third train carrying freight was also involved in the accident.
“This is very, very tragic. I have never seen anything like this in my career,” Sudhanshu Sarangi, director of Odisha state’s fire and emergency department, told The Associated Press as quoted by Daily Laud.
