India train crash death toll rises to 233 as victims offered payment – live

As morning dawns on Odisha’s Balasore district, video shows the site of a massive train derailment in India that killed and wounded hundreds of people on Friday.

The clip, from ANI, shows the wreckage of multiple locomotives surrounded by numerous emergency personnel and bystanders.

Another roughly 900 were injured in the crash, one of the deadliest in Indian history.

India, with roughly 78,610 miles of track, has the fourth largest rail network in the world.

The system is an integral part of India’s modern history and economic development, according to experts.

“Very few countries are defined by their railways, but India’s recent history is inseparable from the development of its enormous rail network,” Christian Wolmar, a historian and author of Railways and The Raj, told CNN.

The rail system, however, suffers from poor maintenance and aging infrastructure.

Rescue forces across the Indian state of Odisha were mobilised on Friday after three trains were involved in a massive derailment crash.

More than 120 people died in the accident

850, meanwhile, were injured, according to state officials.

Friday’s train crash in India is among the country’s worst in recent history, according to NDTV.

The estimated death toll of 120 eclipses that of accidents like a 2015 accident on the Janata Express, which killed 30, and a 2011 accident involving a bus on the Chhapra-Mathura Express that killed 69 people in Uttar Pradesh.

Over 120 bodies have been recovered in India from the site of a train derailment in the state of Odisha, Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of the local fire department told Reuters.

An estimated 850 people have been taken to local hospitals.

About 600 people were injured in Friday’s train derailment in Odisha, according to Odisha chief secretary Pradeep Jena.

It’s now believed at least 70 people were killed in a train derailment in Odisha, India, on Friday, the Washington Post reports.

The crash occured around 7.20pm, when a passenger train derailed, sending some of its cars onto the opposing track, an accident that eventually ensnared three trains altogether.

A survivor of the Odisha train derailment described a harrowing journey to make it to safety.

The man, whose identity was not immediately disclosed, told ANI he was sleeping when the derailment occured, and soon found himself buried under a large group of people.

“I was nodding off when the accident happened and the coach derailed. I was suddenly awake and, before I could do something, I was almost crushed by 10 to 15 people on top of me. We were in a bogie where the reservation was like a general compartment. There’s a lot of pain in my arms, neck and shoulders. When I was able to come out of the bogie, I saw some bodies lying around with severed limbs and smashed faces. I’ve been sitting here since I got out,” the man said, according to a translation from News18.

First responders from multiple government agencies are responding to a train derailment that occured on Friday in Odisha.

The incident, in which the Howrah Superfast Express collided with the Coromandel Express, killed at least 50 people and injured hundreds.

“Removing the living to the hospitals, that’s our first concern, to look after the living,” Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said of the rescue effort, Reuters reports.