{"id":55670,"date":"2023-06-03T04:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/dozens-killed-in-train-crash-in-eastern-india"},"modified":"2023-06-03T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T12:57:33","slug":"at-least-50-people-killed-and-hundreds-injured-in-train-crash-in-eastern-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55670","title":{"rendered":"India train crash: at least 288 killed and 803 injured in Odisha state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue operation under way with death toll expected to rise in India\u2019s worst rail disaster in more than 20 years<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/wailing-for-help-passengers-and-bystanders-tell-of-india-train-crash-horror\">\u2018Wailing for help\u2019: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horror<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least 288 people have been killed and 803 injured after two passenger trains collided in the eastern Indian state of Odisha \u2013 the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/wailing-for-help-passengers-and-bystanders-tell-of-india-train-crash-horror\">deadliest rail disaster<\/a> in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata in West Bengal to Chennai in Tamil Nadu, was going about 80mph (130km\/h) when it collided with a stationary freight train at about 7pm on Friday, causing it to derail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/dozens-killed-in-train-crash-in-eastern-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue operation under way with death toll expected to rise in India\u2019s worst rail disaster in more than 20 years\u2018Wailing for help\u2019: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horrorAt least 288 people have been killed and 803 injured after two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,766,61,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rail-transport","category-south-and-central-asia","category-train-crashes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55700,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55670\/revisions\/55700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}