Following the start of Atlantic Hurricane Season, a tropical storm has just formed and dissipated. Tropical Storm Arlene formed on June 2nd, 2023, but it only lasted for an extremely short period of time. It has just faded out into a minor thunderstorm, but more dangerous storms are sure to come this season.
On another note, 288 people were killed and over 800 others were injured in a massive, deadly train crash in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The crash seemed to have involved two passenger trains and a freight train. Apparently, a high speed passenger train was not signaled that there was a stopped cargo train up ahead, and the two collided in a huge blast. The train, coming from Kolkata, had been traveling at top speed because it was not planned to stop at the station up ahead. When the two trains collided, twenty-one of the passenger train cars flew off the track, with three of them landing on a different, parallel train track. However, another passenger train, coming from Bengaluru- traveling in the opposite direction, on the track where the derailed railcars were- did not know about the crash in time, and it derailed after hitting the three train cars that were sprawled onto its track. When India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, arrived on the scene, he said, "This is a very serious incident for the government. We have given directions for all lines of inquiry, and whoever is found responsible will be given the strongest punishment. They will not be spared.” The accident is the country's worst in over two decades, and questions are now arising over the safety of India's rail network.
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