Kolkata, June 2 :West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee while expressing shock about train accident directed the highest administrator to send a rescue team to Odisha in rescue operations.
” Shocked to know that the Shalimar- Coromandel express, carrying passengers from West Bengal, collided with a goods train near Balasore Friday evening and some of our outbound people have been seriously affected/ injured.
“We are coordinating with the Odisha government and South Eastern Railways for our people’s
sake. Our emergency control room has been activated at once with numbers 033- 22143526/ 22535185. ”
“All out efforts for rescue, retrieval, aid and assistance initiated.”
“We are sending a 5- 6 members team to the spot to cooperate with the Odisha government and railway authorities and to assist rescue operations. I am monitoring the situation continually personally with the Chief Secretary and other senior officers.”