‘Thought we were dead’: Indian train crash survivor recounts horror FMTNews FMTWorld
BALASORE: Ompal Bhatia, a survivor of the three-train crash in India on Friday, had first thought he was dead.
The train is often used by daily wage workers, and people who work as cheap labour in industries around Chennai and Bangalore.The train, traveling past hills along India’s eastern coast, takes more than 24 hours to complete the journey of more than 1600km.It was dusk.Another traveller in the same rail car, Moti Sheikh, 30, was also standing and chatting with a group of six other men from his village.
“They asked me to get out, but I said no, I need to search for my son. But they insisted I first get out.”But he didn’t, and as she was bleeding she was put in an ambulance and taken to a hospital in Balasore.
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