![]() ![]() ![]() He later visited a hospital where he walked around inquiring from doctors about the treatment being given to the injured, and spoke to some of them, moving from bed to bed in a ward. He was seen giving instructions on the phone to officials in New Delhi. Modi flew to the crash site and spent half an hour examining the relief effort and talking to rescue officials. Despite government efforts to improve rail safety, several hundred accidents occur every year on India's railways, the largest train network under one management in the world. The accident occurred at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is focussing on the modernization of the British colonial-era railroad network in India, which has become the world's most populous country with 1.42 billion. Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains accident, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, on Saturday. ![]()
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