At least 80 people have been killed and 850 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. 7NEWS
At least 80 people have been killed and 850 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, state chief secretary Pradeep Jena says.
Images from the scene showed rescuers climbing up the mangled wreck of one of the trains to find survivors.Hundreds of young people lined up outside a government hospital in Odisha’s Soro to donate blood. Jena said earlier that hundreds of people were taken to different local hospitals near the accident site, adding that more than 200 ambulances had been rushed to take accident victims to nearby hospitals.
Rescue operations were underway at the site and “all possible assistance” is being given to those affected, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet.
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