At least eight coaches of Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Lokmanya Tilak Express derailed near Odisha's Cuttack on Thursday after it had hit a guard van of a goods train. Over 20 people have been injured in the accident. According to reports, there was dense fog in the area at the time of the accident.

A plane with 95 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least seven people, aviation authorities in the Central Asian nation said. The plane was heading for the capital, Nur-Sultan, and "lost altitude during takeoff and broke through a concrete fence" before hitting a small building, Kazakhstan's Civil Aviation Committee said.

As many as 18,683-people died in road accidents in the last four years in Odisha, said Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera. The Minister told the state Assembly that 4,463-people were killed in 10,532 accidents in 2016 and 4,790 deaths occurred in 10,855 accidents in 2017. A total of 5,315-people died in 11,262-accidents in 2018 and 4,115 deaths in 8,203-accidents till September this year, said Behera.