The number of people walking through this disaster scene differs from big emergency scenes I see photographed in Western countries, which are usually roped off and tightly controlled. It lends the scene a kind of everyday quality.

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Onlookers stand beside the wreckage of a derailed train near the remote Jajpur Road station, about 120 km (75 miles) east of the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, February 14, 2009. Authorities have ordered a probe into an express train derailment in Orissa that killed 12 people and injured about 150, a senior railway official said on Saturday.