One of the worst devastating crash  after one passenger train  hit a stationary goods train and derailed on to the adjacent track and were struck by an incoming train on Friday killing 300 people and injuring over 1000 in India’s eastern Odisha state. The Shalimar- Chennai  Coromandel Express derailed about 19:00 ( 13:30 GMT) in Balasore district, hit a stationary goods train and several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track, another train the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah ( Calcutta) then hit the overturned carriages. The force with which the trains collided has resulted in several coaches being crushed and mangled in the horrific accident. After the accident there was chaos, loud sound and smoke all around with people trying to escape in all directions.  Many trapped passengers were pulled out by local volunteers who were first at the scene.  Eye witness said they saw a goods train had climbed over on another train. Many stressed and injured passengers were asking for water which they provided from their village.

A massive recovery operation is under way,  with over 200 ambulances and hundreds of doctors, nurses and several hundreds of emergency workers and locals volunteers searched the wreckage. It is by far India’s worst train crash this century and the cause is not yet clear.

All trapped and injured passengers have been rescued. Work to restore the site of the crash begun, India’s South Eastern Railway company said on Saturday.