PM Modi to Visit Balasore Triple Train Accident Site & Injured in Hospitals

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the triple train accident site in Odisha’s Balasore on Saturday and meet with injured people at hospitals in Balasore and Cuttack , reported national media. PM Modi also called up a high-level meeting with railway officials following over 238 deaths in the horrific train accident in Balasore district of Odisha on Friday night. Over 900 were injured in this major train accident.

Three trains had collided after one of the train’s coaches derailed in Balasore at 7 pm. This horrific three-train accident involved two express trains – Bengaluru-Howrah Express and Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express – and a goods train.

The rescue operations are on and all hospitals in the nearby districts have been put on alert.

Three NDRF units, 4 Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force units, over 15 fire rescue teams, 30 doctors, 200 police personnel and 60 ambulances have been mobilised to the site.