Indian officials say that the death toll in the train accident in Balasore district of Orissa is 288 and not 275.
Indian authorities have said in a statement that some of the bodies were counted twice, so far only 88 bodies have been identified.
Indian authorities have said that 1175 people have been injured in the train accident and the search for people trapped in the bogies of the accident train is still going on.
On the other hand, rescue officials say that 5 more bodies were removed from the bogies and more bodies are likely to be found.
Rescue officials have said that a school near the accident site is being used as a mortuary.
Scenes of desecration of dead bodies during the relief operations are also going viral on social media, seeing which people are criticizing severely.
In this regard, the Indian Railway officials say that according to the preliminary investigation, the train accident happened due to signal failure.
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