Odisha train crash: Death toll climbs to 261, high-level probe ordered by Indian Railways
Balasore/Bhubaneswar, Jun 3 (PTI) Large cranes and bulldozers tried on Saturday to lift the last remaining coach that rescuers have not reached yet among the strewn and mangled wreckage of three trains that rammed into each other in rapid sequence in Odisha's Balasore district, officials said. The accident on Friday night killed at least 261 people and injured nearly 1,000 in one of the worst railway tragedies of the country.
The Indian Railways has ordered a high-level probe to ascertain the cause of the accident.
Gas cutters were used to extricate the bodies from under the derailed coaches. From a vantage point high above the ground, the accident site looked like as if a powerful whirlwind had thrown the coaches on top of each other.
