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Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid also dispatched a message of condolence to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the victims of the train collision
The death toll from Friday's crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said Pradeep Jena. The tally was unlikely to rise, he told reporters. "Now the rescue operation is complete."
In their first detailed briefing on the crash, Indian Railways officials said that failure of the track management system was the main focus of investigations.
The Coromandel Express, which runs from Kolkata to Chennai, derailed and fell on the opposite track, with many people still trapped, the reports said.
The son was presumed dead by authorities and was placed at the makeshift morgue.
The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction near the district of Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha.
Outside the hospital, two large screens cycled through photos of the bodies, the faces so bloodied and charred that they were hardly recognizable.
The fatal collision in Andhra Pradesh state in October took place as hosts India played England during the one-day World Cup.
After 57 people were killed in Greece’s worst train disaster a year ago, the government promised to fix a system crumbling from decades of neglect. “Trains will resume operations with safety at the maximum possible level,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said weeks after the
Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that his government will honour police constable Jamal Kalhoro for his “dedication to duty” on Pakistan Day (March 23) after he saved a citizen from being crushed by a train.