The rail car he was in was so full that there was only standing space. Read more at straitstimes.com.
on Friday, had first thought he was dead. When the train he was travelling in went off-track, Mr Bhatia was with three friends on his way to Chennai for work.
The train is often used by daily wage workers, and people who work as cheap labour in industries around Chennai and Bangalore. The coach Mr Bhatia was travelling in was not air-conditioned. “When the accident happened, we thought we were dead. When we realised we were alive, we started making our way towards the emergency window to get out of the train. The rail car had gone off the track and had fallen to one side,” Mr Bhatia told Reuters over the phone on Saturday.“We saw a lot of dead people. Everybody was either trying to save their lives or looking for loved ones,” he said. Fortunately, he and his friends survived.
Mrs Archana Paul, a housewife from West Bengal, was in the other train, the Howrah Yesvantpur Express, when the crash happened.Travelling with her brother and 10-year-old son, Mrs Paul realised that the train had derailed. “I was OK, so I started searching for my son and brother, but could not see them.”
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