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It was a new lease of life for 18-year-old Md Nisar and 26 other teenagers from Araria district in Bihar who were travelling to Kerala from Shalimar in the ill-fated Coromandel Express that met with a deadly accident in the evening on Friday.
Nisar, his niece and others in the S4 bogie of the train were taking rest when the fatal incident happened.
“It was like a small earthquake that we felt seconds before the accident. There was a loud noise and before we could react our coach had overturned,” Nisar said.
As Nisar opened his eyes, he found himself lying on the floor. The collision was so strong that everyone fell down on one another.
#WATCH | A family of three, who was travelling in one of the trains that were involved in #BalasoreTrainAccident, survived the accident & returned to their home in Malubasan village in Mahisadal, Purba Medinipur of West Bengal.Subroto Pal, one of them, says, “We left for… pic.twitter.com/ZbYSVgRIwZ
— ANI (@ANI) June 3, 2023
“Soon there was noises of people groaning with pain and crying for help. I broke out the window and started rescuing others. Luckily most members of our group had suffered minor scratches,” Nasir said.
Nandu Ravi Das, another passenger from Bihar, said when the train collided, he thought everything is over for his family. However, they managed to escape with minor injuries after being rescued immediately by their relatives and co-passengers.
Such was the impact of the mishap that the engine of the Coromandel Express climbed over the bogies of the goods train it reportedly rammed from behind.
Many wagons were lying completely damaged, while their wreckage shattered all around.
ALSO READ | Rescuers try to raise buried coach at triple rail crash site in Odisha as death toll rises to 238
Nabin Chandra Soren, living in a thatched house right next to the track where the mishap occurred, said it was a horrifying scene when he came out of his house hearing the strong sound of the collision.
“Body of the loco pilot was lying near the boundary of my house. After keeping it aside, I along with my wife rushed to the track to rescue others trapped in the bogies,” Soren said.
As the rescue operation continued, people from nearby villages gathered at the spot too joined for help. There, however, was also a large gathering of onlookers.
Thank you to all local people who donet blood for injured people in #TrainAccident ….God bless all people pic.twitter.com/Ak5VQqAqzr
— Gautam Kumar
It was a new lease of life for 18-year-old Md Nisar and 26 other teenagers from Araria district in Bihar who were travelling to Kerala from Shalimar in the ill-fated Coromandel Express that met with a deadly accident in the evening on Friday.
Nisar, his niece and others in the S4 bogie of the train were taking rest when the fatal incident happened.
“It was like a small earthquake that we felt seconds before the accident. There was a loud noise and before we could react our coach had overturned,” Nisar said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
As Nisar opened his eyes, he found himself lying on the floor. The collision was so strong that everyone fell down on one another.
#WATCH | A family of three, who was travelling in one of the trains that were involved in #BalasoreTrainAccident, survived the accident & returned to their home in Malubasan village in Mahisadal, Purba Medinipur of West Bengal.
Subroto Pal, one of them, says, “We left for… pic.twitter.com/ZbYSVgRIwZ
— ANI (@ANI) June 3, 2023
“Soon there was noises of people groaning with pain and crying for help. I broke out the window and started rescuing others. Luckily most members of our group had suffered minor scratches,” Nasir said.
Nandu Ravi Das, another passenger from Bihar, said when the train collided, he thought everything is over for his family. However, they managed to escape with minor injuries after being rescued immediately by their relatives and co-passengers.
Such was the impact of the mishap that the engine of the Coromandel Express climbed over the bogies of the goods train it reportedly rammed from behind.
Many wagons were lying completely damaged, while their wreckage shattered all around.
ALSO READ | Rescuers try to raise buried coach at triple rail crash site in Odisha as death toll rises to 238
Nabin Chandra Soren, living in a thatched house right next to the track where the mishap occurred, said it was a horrifying scene when he came out of his house hearing the strong sound of the collision.
“Body of the loco pilot was lying near the boundary of my house. After keeping it aside, I along with my wife rushed to the track to rescue others trapped in the bogies,” Soren said.
As the rescue operation continued, people from nearby villages gathered at the spot too joined for help. There, however, was also a large gathering of onlookers.
Thank you to all local people who donet blood for injured people in #TrainAccident ….
God bless all people pic.twitter.com/Ak5VQqAqzr
— Gautam Kumar
