Balasore/Bhubaneswar: In wake of the train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district Friday the Ministry of Railways has issued helpline numbers.
Here is a list of the helpline numbers issued so far.
Howrah: 033-26382217
Kharagpur: 8972073925 and 9332392339
Balasore: 8249591559 and 7978418322
Shalimar: 9903370746
Santragachi: 8109289460 and 8340649469
Bhadrak: 7894099579 and 9337116373
Jajpur Keonjhar Road: 9676974398
Cuttack: 8455889917
Bhubaneswar: 06742534027
Khurda Road: 6370108046 and 06742492245
Notably, huge cranes and bulldozers have been brought in to raise the last coach which rescuers had not been able to reach as yet in operations to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one on top of another in a horrific sequence, killing at least 261 people and injuring more than 900 in Odisha’s Balasore district, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
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