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At least 238 people have been killed and 650 are injured in a crash involving three trains in India’s eastern Odisha state, officials say.
One passenger train derailed and its coaches fell on to the adjacent track where they were struck by an incoming train on last evening. A freight train was stationary.
The death toll is expected to rise, as many are still trapped in the wreckage.
The cause of India’s worst train crash this century is not yet clear.
Officials said several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed at about 19:00hrs in Balasore district, hit a stationary goods train and several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track.
More than 200 ambulances and hundreds of doctors, nurses and rescue personnel were sent to the scene, the state’s chief secretary Pradeep Jena said. END