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Hundreds more injured people were being treated at local hospitals. After that it was about picking up dead bodies,” Sarangi said.Ībout 200 of the most severely injured survivors were transported to specialty hospitals in the region, while another 200 were discharged after receiving treatment Friday night, P.K. (on Friday) we were able to rescue the survivors. Officials said they found no more survivors and they were recovering the bodies of people killed in the crash overnight. Here's what we know about the crash and the rescue operation: Are rescuers still searching? I have never seen anything like this in my career,' Sudhanshu Sarangi, director of Odisha state's fire and emergency department, told The Associated Press. Local media reported a third train carrying freight was also involved in the accident.

Some of the debris from the crash scattered onto another track, causing at least three cars from a second passenger train to derail as well, Railroad Ministry spokesperson Amitabh Sharma said. More than 900 people were injured after a passenger train derailed, causing between 10 and 12 cars to wreck in Odisha, about 137 miles southwest of Kolkata. The death toll had risen to over 280 Saturday as rescuers in eastern India continued to sift through the wreckage of one of the country's deadliest train derailments in decades.

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