Almost all of them were in the first three cars of the Coromandel Express, in the so-called general category coaches, where many passengers stand. VictimsĪ total of 288 people died in the crash. A number of locals from Balasore, Bhadrak, and Cuttack came to hospitals to donate blood. South Eastern Railway announced that efforts had commenced to restore the crash site the next day.
The search for and recovery of trapped and injured passengers continued through the night of 2 June and was concluded on the afternoon of 3 June. Rescue operations being conducted at the crash site Officials said that ascertaining the identification of passengers on the unreserved coaches would take time. It was reported that the reserved compartments of the Bengaluru–Howrah Express sustained no passenger fatalities or injuries. The remaining 19 coaches then continued their journey to the train's destination of Howrah. The remainder of the train, which included the engine and 20 coaches, left with its passengers and continued to Balasore, where a further damaged coach was detached. Two unreserved coaches and the brake van of the Bengaluru–Howrah Express were derailed. Three of the derailed coaches from the Coromandel Express careened into the adjacent track and whiplashed the tail end of the Bengaluru–Howrah Express crossing the station at the same time. Because of the high impact speed, 21 coaches of the train were derailed from the main line.
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Īt about 19:00 IST (13:30 GMT), the Coromandel Express was supposed to continue straight on the up main line but was wrongly switched to the parallel up loop line at full speed, where it collided with a stationary goods train laden with iron ore. Both trains, not scheduled to stop at the railway station and having received a green signal indicating it was safe to proceed along the main line, were at their highest permitted speed of 128 km/h (80 mph). Around the same time, the Bengaluru–Howrah SF Express was travelling in the opposite direction from Bangalore, Karnataka to Howrah, West Bengal on the adjacent "down main line". On 2 June 2023, the 12841 Coromandel Express was travelling from Shalimar railway station, West Bengal to Chennai, Tamil Nadu on the " up main line" at the Bahanaga Bazar railway station in the state of Odisha.
Simplified diagram of the 2023 Odisha train collision It was India's deadliest railway crash since the Firozabad rail disaster in 1995, and the deadliest worldwide since the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck. Due to the high speed of the Coromandel Express, its 21 coaches derailed and three of those collided with the oncoming 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah SF Express on the adjacent track.Ī total of 288 people were killed in the crash and 1,175 others were injured. The 12841 Shalimar - MGR Chennai Central Coromandel Express entered the passing loop instead of the main line near Bahanaga Bazar railway station at full speed and collided with a goods train. On 2 June 2023, three trains collided in Balasore district, in the state of Odisha in eastern India. 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah Superfast Express.12841 Shalimar - MGR Chennai Central Coromandel Express.Under investigation Change in electronic interlocking from signalling error
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