The number of dead and injured in the incident may increase as there are still people who remain unaccounted for, reports citing local authorities said. Photo courtesy: Hindustan Times
More than 200 people died and about 900 others were injured in an accident involving multiple trains in eastern India on Friday evening, local media said.
Many passenger cars overturned after a train derailed and ran onto an adjacent track before colliding with at least one other train. The crash site is about 200 kilometers northeast of Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha state.
The number of dead and injured in the incident may increase as there are still people who remain unaccounted for, reports citing local authorities said.
The collision occurred at about 7pm local time (13:30 GMT) on Friday when the Howrah Superfast Express, running from Bengaluru to Howrah, West Bengal, collided with the Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai. Authorities have provided conflicting accounts on which train derailed first to become entangled with the other and have yet to make any statements about possible causes.
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