India train accident: Modi vows punishments over deadly Odisha crash

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Media caption, The BBC's Archana Shukla in Cuttack: ''Distress and chaos'' at the hospital treating the train crash injured People found guilty over a deadly rail accident in eastern India will be "punished stringently", the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.
So far, close to 200 passengers from the train accident site have been brought in, and the numbers continue to rise.
Some people met by the BBC ran from the accident site to nearby hospitals before coming to the facility in Cuttack - searching for their families who were on board the trains.
Image caption, People check a list at a hospital in Cuttack to see if their relatives have been taken there INDIA'S DEADLY TRAIN CRASHES June 1981: About 800 people die when seven of the nine coaches of an overcrowded train fall into a river during a cyclone August 1995: At least 350 people are killed when two trains collide 200km (125 miles) from Delhi August 1999: Two trains collide near Kolkata killing at least 285 people October 2005: 77 people are killed when a train derails in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh * November 2016: Nearly 150 people are killed and an equal number are injured when 14 carriages of the Indore-Patna Express train derail near the city of Kanpur Announcing the conclusion of rescue efforts on Saturday, the railway ministry said work to restore the crash site had begun.