The death toll in the crash of a passenger and a goods trains rose Saturday to 288 in addition to 1,000 wounded people.

Condolences poured in from within and without the country after the tragedy took place last night.

Several bogies of a speeding Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express derailed and hit a freight train stationed at Bahanaga Bazar in Odisha’s Balasore. Soon after Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express heading from Yesvantpur city near Bengaluru in Karnataka to Howrah city in West Bengal came and hit the derailed bogies and resulted in the biggest train tragedy of the country in the century.

According to reports, Coromandel Express was carrying around 1,257 reserved passengers while 1,039 people with reserved tickets were travelling on board Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express when the accident tok place.

This is in addition to hundreds of passengers travelling with unreserved tickets in both the trains.

Leaders in the central and state governments, and several important and influential people and leaders from across the world expressed their deep sorrow and condolences in the incident. Kuwait leadership was among the first to express condolences.

Condolences are also pouring in from world leaders on train crash. Kuwait leadership expressed its grief and conveyed condolences to the Indian leadership and people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of UAE Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen are among those who expressed condolences.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the accident site and expressed his sorrow. He shared the pain of those who were affected by the accident while pledging to take stringent action against those who are responsible for the massive deadly incident.

Source: Kuwait News Agency