Trains passed by honking their horns in mourning amid the rubble of wagons wrecked in Friday’s accident near Balasore. There are confirmed at least 275 dead. Of the 1,175 injured, 382 were still hospitalized. So the deceased could increase.
A green net was placed on the sides of the tracks, protecting the wrecked wagons.
The investigations detail that the passenger convoy Coromandal Expresswhich was traveling from Calcutta to Chennai was traveling on the main road but was diverted by human error into a corridor where a freighter was stopped which caused the first collision.
Three carriages were left lying on the adjacent track, hitting the rear of another passenger express from Bangalore to Calcutta. This second crash is the one that would have caused the most damage.
India’s Railway Minister folded his hands in prayer as he saw the first train cross the disaster site. The Ministry of Railways He said that the first formation was a freighter with coal, which left 51 hours after the tragedy.
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