India Train Crash Rescuers Describe Search of Railcars Filled With Bodies

Crew cut through metal to recover survivors of three-way crash that killed at least 275

Cargo and passenger train service resumed Monday at the site of Friday’s deadly three-way train crash in India, which killed at least 275 people. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press

BALASORE, India—The local office of India’s top disaster-response force received the call at 7:35 p.m. on Friday: At least one train had derailed, maybe more. A few minutes later, the phone rang again, and then again: trains had collided with each other—and it was bad.

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