Two Bangladeshis among Injured in Triple Train Crash in India

Two Bangladesh citizens are reportedly among the injured people in the horrible triple train collision in Odisha State of India that occurred on Friday evening, reports media.

Citing a Bangladesh deputy high commission official in Kolkata, Bangladesh’s news outlets said the two injured Bangladeshi nationals were going to Chennai from Kolkata’s Shalimar station. They are taking treatment at a hospital in Balasore, a city in Odisha.

Bangladesh officials are continuing efforts to find out their identities.  

Nearly 300 people were killed and more than 900 people were injured in the India’s deadliest rail accident in more than two decades.

The state has declared Saturday a day of state mourning as a mark of respect to the victims.

India's deadliest railway accident occurred in 1981 when a train plunged off a bridge and into a river in Bihar state, killing an estimated 800 people.