Rescue operations on in full swing after Coromandel Express derailment: B Guganesan, CPRO, Southern Railway

At least 70 people were killed and more than 350 injured in a horrific train crash on Friday in Odisha involving the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express and a goods train, officials and hospital doctors said. Local villagers, however, claimed that the number of dead could be nearer 100.