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Bradley Jolly

India train crash casualties left 'screaming for help' as 288 die after carriages derail

A mother travelling on a train which collided with two others - leaving at least 288 victims dead - told how she and her young daughter heard "people screaming for help and crying loudly".

Sayantani Ghosh was on the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express, which was involved in a collision with another passenger train and a goods service at around 7.20pm local time on Friday in the Odisha state of India.

At least 288 people have died - and hundreds more are seriously hurt - following the smash.

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