Posted on 06/02/2023 6:59:28 PM PDT by CFW
Atrain crash in India has killed 207 people and left roughly 900 injured.
The Friday incident saw two passenger trains collide with a freight train in the Odisha state city of Balasore, CNN reported. The cause remains unknown as of press time, though authorities have indicated that rescue activities remain ongoing.
"We are only working (at) sending additional doctors, ambulances, buses, so all those things we are doing so we have not thought of asking what happened, how it happened," State Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena told the local CNN affiliate.
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds injured after multiple trains collided in India on Friday evening, according to a local official, in what has been described as a “violent” crash.
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"Poker in the rear" is the way I remembered it. My son still has the coffee mug from our trip in my newly acquired manual transmission, VW Jetta, Turbo Diesel Station wagon we were gently driving back on the slower two lane roads from Missoula, Mont. to the Great Lakes at the end of one of his academic years out west.
E=mv2
Try to find a neurologist these days that’s not from India
3 trains, 2 tracks
What a mess
RIP
“...hmmmm ... I would guess ...now this is just my guess mind you
... but could it be because they were on the same track..
...just saying...”
That’s definitely something the investigators should consider. I also wonder if they had train engineers who previously worked at one of the cell phone service call-centers. I know when I have to call regarding service problems the entire discussion reminds me of a train wreck.
That picture screams “next stop, ‘Final Destination’”.
RIP.
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