As many as 17 persons injured in the accident have so far being brought to S.C.B. Photo: ANI/TwitterBhubaneswar: At least one person was killed and 22 others injured, two of them critically, in a collision between the Bhubaneswar-Bhadrak passenger train and a goods train near Kathjodi station at Cuttack on Thursday evening, East Coast Railway officials said. Train services between Bhubaneswar and Cuttack have been severely affected, railway officials said. The passenger train was unusually overcrowded due to a strike by bus operators in the state, district officials said. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik has expressed concern over the accident and directed state government officials to ensure free treatment to the injured.

Source: Mint September 29, 2016 17:03 UTC