At least 288 people have died in India's worst rail accident in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country

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Two Bangladeshi nationals, who were going to Chennai from Shalimar station near Kolkata, are reportedly among the injured in the triple train crash in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, a Bangladesh deputy high commission official in Kolkata said today..Both the Bangladeshis were in the C

Deputy High Commission in Kolkata has opened a hotline to get information about Bangladeshis following a terrible train accident in Balasore, Odisha state of India

The Indian railways has initiated a high-level probe into the triple train crash in Odisha as the opposition leaders raised questions about the signalling system of the railways which purportedly led to one of the worst rail disasters in the country

Here are details of some of the deadliest rail accidents in India in recent decades

A mass of mangled train coaches piled atop one another and profusely-bleeding passengers writhing in pain and shrieking for help — the site of the triple train accident site near Balasore in the eastern Indian state of Odisha painted a grisly picture

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At least 50 people were killed and 350 injured when two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha yesterday, Indian media reported.

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The death toll from the horrific triple train collision in the eastern Indian state of Odisha rose to 288 people this morning

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused India’s BJP government of “threatening” the people and “misusing” the country’s probe agencies, and attacked the Indian media for projecting a narrative that suits the saffron party.

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At least 10 people were killed and 57 injured today when a double-decker bus fell into a gorge after skidding off a bridge in India’s Jammu district..The bus was carrying pilgrims to Katra from Amritsar and met with the accident in Jhajjar Kotli area, reports our New Delhi correspondent qu