Speaking to ANI, Vishakhapatnam Waltair Division Railway Manager Anup Kumar Sathapathy said, "Total reserved passengers in 12841 Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express train, travelling to Andhra Pradesh destinations were 178, out of which 110 were from Visakhapatnam. Remaining gener
"You may have seen that the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, Coromandel Express, and a goods train met with an accident in Balasore, Odisha. Several passengers lost their lives in this horrific accident, and around 900 people were injured. On behalf of the people of Uttar Pradesh and the
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has constituted a high-level IAS officers committee to visit the site of Coromandel Express train accident which has caused huge loss of human lives and injuries to the passengers.
As the death toll in the Odisha train accident has risen to 238 we look back at the most tragic train accidents that has jolted the nation in the past.
Several trains have been cancelled while many were diverted following a major accident in Odisha's Balasore where three trains collided claiming the lives of 233 people and injuring around 900.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took stock of the situation in Odisha's Balasore where a passenger train collided with a goods train leaving several injured. PM Modi said the rescue operations are underway at the site of the accident and all possible assistance is being provided.
Three units of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), over 50 fire services with full equipment have rushed to Odisha's Balasore, where a passenger train hit the derailed coaches of another train, leaving over 130 people injured.
A case has been registered by Government Railway Police (GRP) following a fire that broke out in a coach of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train at Kannur railway station in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, said, railway officials.