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  • Tinubu Sympathizes With India Over Incident Involving Triple Train Crash

    Tinubu Sympathizes With India Over Incident Involving Triple Train Crash

    President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commiserated with the government and people of the Republic of India over a multiple train crash which claimed the lives of over 280 passengers in the country.

    The fatal crash involving two passenger trains and a goods train in the Indian city of Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, occurred on Friday.

    Aside those killed, over 900 others were injured in what was one of the worst rail crashes in recent history.

    The president, in a release issued on his behalf by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz on Saturday, described the train accident as heartrending, while consoling the Indian government and families of the victims.

    President Tinubu said: “My heart goes to the families of those affected in the unfortunate and heartrending train crash in the Indian state of Odisha.

    “We stand with India in brotherhood at this difficult time. The magnitude of the crash and the high casualty figure call for global support for India to adequately respond to this calamitous accident.

    “I send my deepest sympathy and condolences to His Excellency Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the people of India and the families of those trapped in the crash.”

  • Death Toll Rises To 288 In India Triple Train Crash

    Death Toll Rises To 288 In India Triple Train Crash

    At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years.

    Wreckage debris was piled high at the crash site near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, where some carriages had been tossed far from the tracks and others flipped over entirely.

    Smashed train compartments were torn open in the impact late on Friday, leaving blood-stained holes in their sides.

    Survivor Arjun Das told a Bengali television channel he heard a thundering sound, then saw people falling from upper berths.

    He jumped out of the train. “People were screaming, shouting for help,” he said.

    “There were injured lying everywhere inside coaches and along the tracks. I want to forget the scenes.”

    The disaster began when an express train running north from India’s tech hub Bengaluru to Kolkata derailed, falling onto the adjacent southbound track.

    Minutes later, the Coromandal Express heading from Kolkata to Chennai smashed into the wreckage, some of its coaches also colliding with a goods train parked nearby.

    Researcher Anubhav Das was in the last carriage of the second train when he heard “screeching, horrifying sounds coming from a distance”.

    His coach stayed upright and he jumped out unhurt after it ground to a halt.

    “I saw bloodied scenes, mangled bodies and one man with a severed arm being desperately helped by his injured son,” the 27-year-old told AFP.

    “I lost count of the bodies before leaving the site. Now I now feel almost guilty.”

    Rescue workers searched for survivors trapped in the mangled wreckage Saturday, with scores of bodies laid out under white sheets beside the tracks.

    Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, said the death toll stood at 288 but was expected to go higher, potentially approaching 380.

    “Many people who have been rushed to hospitals are succumbing there and we are still taking out the dead bodies,” he told AFP from the accident site.

    “The rescue work is still ongoing here as there are some bodies under the bogies and teams are trying to lift them to get them out.”