"For Scores of Migrant Workers, It Was Their Last Journey. For Survivors, It's a Reminder 'We Don't Have a Choice'", 4 June 2023

They left their homes in search of a better life and livelihood but met an untimely death on the railway tracks of Odisha when the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express crashed head on into the rear of a goods train in Balasore district.

Most of the 294 passengers declared dead so far were migrant workers travelling on the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express, the first three coaches of which were completely smashed in the...crash, leading to the high death toll as these were unreserved coaches packed to the hilt by the poorest of the society. Many of them belong to remote places in West Bengal.

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Buses have been arranged by the Mamata Banerjee government to take them back to Bengal in batches. Almost every district in the state can count a casualty or a person missing in the tragedy. Some families are mourning multiple losses.