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Global News Podcast

Train crash in India kills more than 200

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hundreds more are injured as rescue teams scramble to help. Also: Three more Europeans have been released from Iran - following a prisoner swap involving a jailed Iranian diplomat last week, and Cynthia Weil, the prolific American songwriter behind "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling", the most played song of the twentieth century, has died.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.5

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:06.7

This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday, the 3rd of June,

0:10.8

or the 200 people have been killed and 900 injured in a train crash in Eastern India.

0:16.8

Rescuers are working through the night.

0:19.3

Three more Europeans have been released from Iran following a prisoner swap involving

0:23.4

a jailed Iranian diplomat last week.

0:26.3

And Japan announces a new multi-billion dollar plan to reverse its declining birth rate,

0:31.2

which has hit a record low.

0:35.3

Also in the podcast.

0:41.7

The British referee abused by fans of the Italian football team Roma.

0:46.8

And we look back at the life of the prolific US songwriter Cynthia Valle,

0:51.3

who's died at the age of 82.

0:56.7

There are conflicting accounts about exactly what happened in the train crash in Eastern India.

1:02.7

The number of people killed has been rising steadily.

1:05.7

The latest report from Adisha State is that more than 200 people were killed and 900 injured

1:12.7

when two trains collided.

1:14.7

This passenger described what happened.

1:16.7

Ten to fifteen people fell in me when the accident happened and everything went haywire.

1:26.7

I was at the bottom of the pile.

1:28.7

I heard my hand and also the back of my neck.

1:31.7

When I came out of the train, I saw someone had lost their hand,

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