evidence: Government authorities June 4 were working to get rail services back in operation in the district of Balasore after the deadliest train crash in India in decades killed 275 people and injured at least 1,000 June 2. [...] The Associated Press reported that chaotic scenes that erupted at night after the derailment around 7 p.m. local time June 2. According to the BBC, citing Indian officials, several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed in Balasore district, hitting a stationary goods train. Several of its coaches ended up on the opposite track. Then the third train -- Howrah Superfast Express traveling from Yesvantpur to Howrah -- hit the overturned carriages. [...] Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a message said he was "distressed by the train accident in Odisha. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with the bereaved families. May the injured recover soon."