Indian authorities on Saturday ended an intensive search for survivors of a three-train pileup the night before in the country’s east, as the death toll rose to 288, making it one of the worst railways accidents in India’s history.
The crash involved high-speed trains that collided “head-on,” Odisha’s director of fire and emergency services, Sudhanshu Sarangi, said, calling it “a major, major tragedy.”
More than 200 people were killed in a train collision in Odisha, a state in eastern India, on June 2. Photographs and video from the wreckage site showed overturned train cars. Witnesses said people converged at the scene and tried to pull survivors from the mounds of mangled steel as emergency alarms sounded and the injured cried out for help.
“I have never seen something like this in my life. This is the first time we have received so many patients,” D. Jagatdeo said by phone from his office, where he had been stationed since the previous night.
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