Number of train collision victims in India increased to 288, the AFP agency said.
According to previously published data, there were 207 dead and 900 injured.
It was previously reported that two passenger and one passenger collided in the Indian state of Odisha. freight train. The incident happened on Friday, around 19.20 local time (16.50 Moscow time). According to the local administration, 10-12 carriages of a passenger train traveling from Kolkata to Chennai derailed due to a collision with a freight train and fell onto the opposite track. After some time, another passenger train crashed into them, as a result, three or four more cars with people derailed.
The rescue operation continues, hundreds of emergency workers are involved in it. Reportedly, the number of casualties could increase as people could remain under the overturned train cars. In addition, the rescue activities were complicated by the onset of darkness.