India train crash: ‘I survived but many died around me’

The bid collision successful India's eastbound Odisha (previously known arsenic Orissa) authorities connected Friday evening - the country's worst this period - progressive 2 rider trains and a freight train.

Officials said respective carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed successful Balasore district, deed a stationary goods bid and respective of its coaches ended up connected the other track.

Another bid - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - past deed the overturned carriages.

The BBC spoke to 2 section villagers, who witnessed the crash, and an injured bid rider who was travelling successful the Coromandel Express.

This nonfiction contains details that immoderate readers whitethorn find disturbing.

The goods bid was stationary connected a antithetic track. The Coromandel Express derailed and collided with the goods train.

There was chaos. The bid coming from the different broadside was Shalimar Express. It deed [the Coromandel Express] from behind. Two of its coaches derailed. There was a large sound. There was fume each around.

It was chaotic and radical were moving successful each directions. I was adjacent to the tracks and decided to tally to the spot. We started pulling retired immoderate of the trapped passengers. We managed to get immoderate of the survivors out, and immoderate bodies too.

There were truthful galore injured, we did not cognize however to get them out. It became a spot easier aft the rescue workers arrived. This enactment went connected astir passim the night. I americium inactive successful a daze.

We heard a large sound. When we came retired of the house, we saw that this mishap had happened outside. I saw the goods bid had climbed implicit connected different train.

When I reached the spot, I saw that galore radical injured, galore radical had died. A tiny kid was crying whose parents had astir apt died. That kid besides died aft a while.

Many radical were asking for h2o here. I gave h2o to radical arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. People from our colony came present and helped radical arsenic overmuch arsenic they could.

I was successful the bid erstwhile we felt a flimsy jolt and the bid derailed.

There was a thunderous dependable and the bid overturned. I was trapped and was rescued aft fractional an hr by section people.

All our belongings were scattered outside. I couldn't find immoderate of it. I came retired and sat connected the ground. Four passengers who were travelling from my colony person survived, but a batch of radical are injured oregon inactive missing.

A batch of radical died successful the manager I was travelling in. Those who were earnestly injured were brought to the hospital.