Hundreds dead in India's worst train crash in decades

By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V
Updated June 3 2023 - 11:02pm, first published 10:57pm
Rescuers are searching the mangled wrecks of two passenger trains that collided in India. (AP PHOTO)
Rescuers are searching the mangled wrecks of two passenger trains that collided in India. (AP PHOTO)

At least 261 people have died in India's worst rail accident in more than two decades, officials say, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in the east of the country.

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