INDIA TRAIN CRASH INVESTIGATION BEGINS.

Two separate investigations have been

launched into the circumstances that led

to the devastating train crash in the

east Indian state of audition rescue

efforts have now ended after the

country's worst rail crash this Century

288 people are known to have died and

more than a thousand injured it's

thought around 2 000 passengers were on

board the two passenger trains involved

in the crash Joe Inwood has the latest

it is India's worst rail disaster in

decades around 2 000 people were packed

into the commuter trains when they

collided

hundreds are known to have died with

many more injured

those pulled from the wreckage were

taken to nearby hospitals where they

spoke of the horror of the crash

when the accident occurred we realized

that there was a fire when it caught

fire nobody could Escape some did manage

to get out some were able to run out of

the carriage but the train had fallen

over another train

koshida had to watch as her only

daughter died in front of her

we kept rolling my daughter got stuck

and was buried under bulky iron I

managed to stand in a corner but I was

hit in the head by something I thought

about how to get her out from underneath

but I didn't know how to move such heavy

iron my daughter kept crying and then

died right in front of my eyes

after visiting the scene of the crash

India's prime minister traveled to the

hospital where many of the survivors

were being cared for he promised Swift

Justice

this incident is very serious for the

government or just for carrying out a

thorough investigation have been given

and whoever is found guilty will get the

strictest punishment that person will

not be spared

authorities say everyone has now been

rescued or recovered from the wreckage

attention will now turn to exactly what

caused this disaster

there are conflicting reports but it's

thought the coromandel express heading

south to Chennai somehow collided with a

stationary Goods train

it derailed with some carriages ending

up in the path of the howrah Superfast

Express heading north

work is already underway to clear the

tracks and reopen this busy stretch of

Railway

two investigations have also begun

promising answers and punishment for

those responsible for this terrible loss

of life

Joe Inwood BBC News

well this is the scene live at that

crash site in the town of balasore you

can see that what has taken place now is

essentially the clear up the the diggers

are in there the Earth movers are in

there and very slowly moving those

Railway carriages that were derailed a

number of Railway carriages from three

trains to passenger one Freight and the

recovery the search and Recovery part of

the operation now has finished as they

start to try to get certainly the

regions Railways open and running again

heavily reliant on the railways with its

extensive Railway system across right

across India well our correspondent in

balasore as well is archana Shukla and

China I understand that you're at one of

the closest hospitals to to that crash

site what sort of activity has been

taking place there

oh well this is about 35 to 40 45th

drive from where the accident happened

and this is one of the larger government

hospitals where yesterday initially many

of the injured were brought in for a

medical Aid and the bodies were also

brought in here uh for those who had

deceased during the crash site since

morning here when we came

some of the injured have been discharged

many of the casualties have been moved

to other hospitals bigger hospitals in

bhuvaneshwar and Qatar that are about

three hours from here but the sign and

the scene here is that there are still

many families and many people who are

looking for their relatives they have

yet not been able to uh some of the

identification of the bodies is still

pending and many of them are still

scouting for their loved ones not

knowing which hospital they are being

treatment treated this is one of the

wards where some of the injured are

being treated some others on the other

side and this is what uh you know the

cities woke up to

um when it in terms of people looking

for their loved ones on the track sides

are like you pointed out restoration

work is in full swing there is a it's a

priority to get the train Services back

on track uh because uh since uh over 36

hours and trains services in this region

of Eastern India have been disrupted so

the railway Ministry focusing a lot on

getting the tracks back

on work and the hospital Services here

trying to attend to uh the injured uh

families

I understand that essentially makeshift

morgues have had to be established to

deal with a number of people who have

died and the relatives who are traveling

to these sites in the hope of

identifying their loved ones

completely um the number the toll was

quite high and for any local region to

handle to those numbers is not possible

and hence makeshift mogs uh did have to

be that had to be made uh one bigger

problem was uh that since trained

services in the entire region were

disrupted a lot of families from far off

places like the Eastern State of Bihar

or in Chennai could not travel and come

to the location quickly so it is only

like last night or early morning today

that families are now coming in and

trying to figure out and locate their

relatives

um and and yes there are makeshift mogs

uh close to the accident side close to

where the hospital is but there are very

conflicting numbers that are being

floating around we are told that

officials are also shifting some of the

casualties to bigger hospitals in

bhubaneswar which are better collected

uh to other areas so that family members

can come and identify the bodies uh so

so it's all being split out

um and uh the the process is trying to

be uh you know done in a faster manner

now I mean essentially they're working

against the clock aren't they we're

talking about bodies and makeshift

morgues in sweltering heat as well I

mean we're the the likelihood that those

bodies are going to be identified by

their families decreases over time

I know

it certainly does today I met a family

here three people were in the Train the

families could come to the hospital only

today morning they could identify they

could find one of their family members

they're still looking for the other two

and they're not even sure which hospital

or which morgue should they go and look

for uh for their loved ones and and the

and the fear and the trouble of

decomposition of these uh these bodies

is certainly a real problem that the

government and the authorities here are

working with uh and and hence they're

trying to shift some of the bodies to

bigger hospitals and bigger mogs in

bigger cities like bhubaneshwar or in

Qatar which are at least three to four

hours from where we are right now okay

we're talking huge distances there

um achana Shukla thank you very much

indeed thank you