At least 120 people were killed and 850 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state.
Over 120 bodies had been recovered so far, stating from Sudhanshu Sarangi, the director general of the fire department in Odisha ,adding that the death toll “might go up” as rescue teams continued to search.
Some 850 people have been taken to local hospitals with injuries, with over 200 ambulances mobilised, state Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said in a tweet.Images from the scene showed rescuers climbing up the mangled wreck of one of the trains to find survivors.”I was there at the site and I can see blood, broken limbs and people dying around me,” an eyewitness said. 
Hundreds of young people lined up outside a government hospital in Odisha’s Soro to donate blood.The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, collided with another passenger train, the Howrah Superfast Express, railway officials said on Friday evening.The Howrah Superfast Express derailed and became entangled with the Coromandel Express, South Eastern Railway authorities said in a statement.
Rescue teams have been mobilised from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar and Kolkata in West Bengal, federal Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a tweet. This has been one of the worst India train accident in years.
