238 Dead In Three-Train Accident

India: At least 238 people were killed and around 900 were injured in a horrific three-train collision in Odisha’s Balasore, officials said Saturday, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the train accident site and meet with injured people at hospitals in Cuttack, sources have said. He also called a high-level meeting with railway officials. The crash involved the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train. Lawyer and activist Jibran Nasir ‘picked up by unknown persons’ in Karachi: wife claims The Caligula Parvez Elahi re-arrested from outside Lahore court moments after release by court The accident saw one train ram so hard into another that carriages were lifted high into the air, twisting and then smashing off the tracks. Another carriage had been tossed entirely onto its roof, crushing the passenger section. “Everything was shaking and we could feel the coach toppling,” Sanjay Mukhia, a daily wage worker traveling to Chennai on the Coromandel-Shalimar Express, told NDTV, showing his injuries. NAB summons Imran’s wife Bushra on June 7 in Al Qadir Trust case Usman Buzdar quits politics, urges stakeholders to sit together Alienated Imran appoints Haleem Adil Sheikh … Continue reading 238 Dead In Three-Train Accident