Involving two passenger trains and another carrying goods, 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.
BALASORE - Carriages perched on top of each other and lines of bodies collected by rescue workers: as dawn broke on Saturday, it revealed the horror of one of India's deadliest railway crashes.On the ground -- and squashed into the ripped metal wreckage and what were once benches in the carriage -- travellers' belongings lay scattered: a suitcase, a child's shoe and piles of clothes.
Teams using metal cutting tools prised open gaps in the torn sides of carriages in a desperate search to reach those trapped inside, pulling out survivors and bodies. Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, speaking at the site to AFP, warned of "serious injuries".
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