Rescue Ops Over At Odisha Train Accident Site, Restoration On: 10 Points

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for Odisha the place he’ll go to the prepare accident web site in Balasore district, about 170 km north of Bhubaneswar, and meet with injured folks at hospitals in Cuttack, sources have mentioned.

2. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee can be on a go to to the state to take inventory of the state of affairs and meet the injured in hospitals. Her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik additionally visited Balasore this morning and reviewed the state of affairs with Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

3. The rescue operation within the horrific prepare accident has been accomplished and the restoration work has been began, railways spokesperson Amitabh Sharma mentioned this afternoon, about 18 hours after the horrific collission.

4. The collision occurred at about 7pm on Friday when the Howrah Superfast Categorical, working from Bangalore to Howrah derailed and have become entangled with the Coromandel Categorical, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, railway officers mentioned.

5. The crash noticed one prepare ram so exhausting into the opposite that carriages have been lifted excessive into the air, twisting after which smashing off the tracks. One other carriage had been tossed totally onto its roof, crushing the passenger part. Over 3,400 passengers have been travelling in two trains, in keeping with railway officers.

6. “The whole lot was shaking and we might really feel the coach toppling,” Sanjay Mukhia, a each day wage employee travelling to Chennai on the Coromandel-Shalimar Categorical, advised NDTV, displaying his accidents. In accordance with one other survivor, severed limbs have been scattered over the ripped steel wreckage.

7. The Railways Ministry has ordered a high-level probe into how the accident occurred. The ministry has additionally introduced compensation of ₹ 10 lakh for the households of those that have died, ₹ 2 lakh for these critically injured. PM Modi has additionally introduced a compensation of ₹ 2 lakh for the household of the useless and ₹ 50,000 for the injured from the PM’s Nationwide Reduction Fund (PMNRF).

8. 48 trains have been cancelled, 39 diverted and 10 trains have been brief terminated because of the accident, which occurred on the Howrah-Chennai important line within the Kharagpur division of the South Japanese Railway.

9. India has one of many world’s largest rail networks and has seen a number of disasters through the years, the worst of them in 1981 when a prepare derailed whereas crossing a bridge in Bihar and plunged into the river under, killing between 800 and 1,000 folks.

10. Odisha prepare accident ranks as its third worst, and the deadliest since 1995, when two categorical trains collided in Firozabad, close to Agra, killing greater than 300 folks.

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