Odisha Train Accident: Toll Reaches 261, Rescue Operation Ends

Locals along with security personnel and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) seen at the accident site in Odisha’s Balasore district on Saturday, where the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express train derailed on Friday night. (Source: PTI)

Over 50 doctors, and 25 teams of doctors from Cuttack's SCB Medical College, and forensic medicine specialists were also been mobilised to assist in rescue operation. (Source: PTI)

More than 200 ambulances and 45 mobile health teams were sent in a fresh deployment as part of the rescue operation in Odisha's Balasore, where a horrific three-train collision took place. (Source: PTI)

NDRF visuals showed its personnel were actively involved in the search and rescue operation at the accident site. NDRF shared visuals of search operations and canine searches inside the damaged train coaches. (Source: Twitter/NDRF)

Locals and security personnel were engaged in the search and rescue operation at the site that has now been completed, according to South Eastern Railway official. (Source: PTI)

Earlier today, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik met the people, who are admitted to a hospital in Balasore, after getting injured in the Balasore train accident. (Source: ANI)

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik described the event as extremely tragic. (Source: ANI)