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Desperate search for survivors as death toll nears 300 in India train crash

More than 280 people were killed and over 1,000 injured when a passenger train derailed and struck two other trains in eastern India on Friday, officials said, one of the worst rail accidents in the country’s history. The crash in the city of Balasore, in eastern Odisha state, has reverberated across India, now the world’s most populous nation, renewing calls for authorities to confront safety issues in a railway system that transports more than 13 million passengers every day.