Viral video shows final moments inside Coromandel Express just before the accident

Days after the train tragedy in Odisha, a video from one of the coaches of the ill-fated Coromandel Express has surfaced on social media. The authenticity of the video could not be verified, which shows what happened inside a coach of Coromandel Express when it met with a horrific accident that left over 250 people dead.

The video, which seems to have been shot from a mobile phone camera, shows a cleaning worker mopping the floor just seconds before the crash. Some passengers can also be seen sleeping on the berths.

Suddenly, the video goes dark with passengers screaming loudly as the train gets derailed following the collision.


Last Friday, in a three-train collision, near Balasore in Odisha, Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express hit a stationary goods train and later some coaches of the derailed Chennai-bound train also collided with the Yeshvantpur Express, in one of India's deadliest train accidents.

Over 1000 persons have been also injured in the accident. The Railways said that as far preliminary investigation the accident may have resulted on account of 'signalling interference'. The CBI has on Tuesday taken over the Balasore GRP case No. 64 registered by Odisha Police.



Four days after the Coromandel Express was involved in a triple train accident near Bahanagar Bazar station in Odisha's Balasore district, the down train from Chennai crossed the accident site at 30kmph on Tuesday. As the train passed through, a sizeable number of onlookers witnessed the locomotive chug through the distance. More than 70 trains including Vande Bharat Express have so far crossed through Bahanaga Bazar Station since both the up and down lines were restored on Sunday night.

The CBI has on Tuesday taken over the Balasore GRP case No. 64 registered by Odisha Police.

Khurda Road Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Rinkesh Ray said on Monday of the 278 bodies, 177 have been identified while the unclaimed bodies have been kept in six different hospitals.

Roy said the Railways has deployed people in states such as Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to locate any missing person.

He said the bodies will be preserved in a scientific manner. (With Agency Inputs)