Media caption, Watch: Drone video reveals the destruction after Friday’s train crash By Zoya Mateen in Delhi & Adam Durbin in London BBC News At least 261 individuals haveactually been eliminated and 1,000 are hurt in a crash including 3 trains in India’s eastern Odisha state. One guest train thwarted on to the surrounding track and was struck by an inbound train on Friday, likewise striking a neighboring fixed freight train. A huge healing operation is under method, after hundreds of emergencysituation employees browsed the wreckage. The cause of India’s worst train crash in over 20 years is not yet clear. Officials state anumberof carriages from the Coromandel Express, takingatrip inbetween Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Chennai (formerly Madras), thwarted at about 19: 00 (13: 30 GMT) in Balasore district after striking a fixed items train. Several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track. Another train takingatrip in the opposite instructions – the Howrah Superfast Express takingatrip from Yesvantpur to Howrah – then hit the reversed carriages. “The force with which the trains clashed has resulted in numerous coaches being crushed and mangled,” Atul Karwal, chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) informed ANI news firm. More than 200 ambulances and hundreds of medicalprofessionals, nurses and rescue workers were sentout to the scene, the state’s chief secretary Pradeep Jena stated. Sudhanshu Sarangi, director basic of Odisha Fire Services, had earlier stated 288 had passedaway. All caught and hurt guests haveactually been resc
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