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More than 280 dead, some 900 injured in India train crash

Screen grab from AFPTV footage taken on June 3, 2023, shows the site of a three-train collision near Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha. © Jayanta Shaw, AFP

At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years.

Wreckage debris was piled high at the crash site near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha, where some carriages had been tossed far from the tracks and others flipped over entirely.

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