Odisha Train Accident: Reason behind for tragedy

Nearly 300 people were killed and over 900 have been injured in a horrific train derailment that occurred on Friday evening at around 7 pm in Odisha’s Balasore. Odisha Train Accident: Reason behind for tragedy.

The Coromandel Express train accident may have been caused by human error, initial reports from the signalling control room of the railways suggest. The train apparently took the wrong track, minutes before the accident occurred, according to the video footage from the signalling control room of the Kharagpur division of the Railways.

Instead of following the main line, the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express mistakenly entered a loop line where a goods train was parked, shortly after passing Bahanagar Bazar station at approximately 6:55 pm on Friday.

However, a more comprehensive investigation is required to ascertain the exact cause of the accident. “How it happened and why it happened, will be found in the detailed inquiry that the railway board has ordered. According to the same official, a similar accident occurred in 1995 in Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, where three trains collided.

Around 350 persons were killed in that accident and the rescue operations went on for three days. The Coromandel Express, running at about 127 km per hour, collided with the goods train and derailed on the main line, an official from the railway ministry said.

Within minutes of the collision, the official cited above said that the Howrah-bound Yashwantnagar Express coming from the opposite side collided with the Coromandel Express. The disastrous accident occurred around 7.30 pm on Friday. The toll in the disastrous accident has risen to 261 and rescue operations at the site have been completed, a South Eastern Railway official said on Saturday.

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