Passenger says driver applied emergency brakes
People gather at the scene where two trains derailed near the town of Harda in Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: PTI)
Harda (MP): 51-year-old Allahabad native Syed Imran Ali’s dreams of going to Dubai have been delayed as he lost all his documents needed for a visa in the train mishap in Madhya Pradesh, but he still feels lucky that he survived the tragedy.
Ali had happily boarded the Kamayani Express from Mumbai to visit Allahabad for arranging money to complete visa formalities for fulfiling his dreams of having a good life. However, little did he knew that fate had something else in store for him. “The train was chugging in high speed and I was awake making plans about Dubai. It was pitch dark and heavy rains lashed the area. Suddenly, the driver applied emergency brakes when the train was crossing the bridge,” Imran said, lying on his bed in the district hospital after suffering a fracture in his hand and injuring his legs.
“The train stopped with a loud thud sound and suddenly water started entering the coach, and within five minutes it flooded the entire coach S-10 coach leaving very little time for passengers to make an exit,” Imran said, even as he recalled seeing the Janata Express being stationary at the very same spot on the adjoining track.
“Women used their saris to form a rope rescue which on one end was tied to the ill-fated coach of Kamayani Express and other to the stationary train on the other side and somehow they came out saving many lives,” he said.
The story of Chotu Singh from Kuda village in Madhya Pradesh is no different as he was travelling with his wife to Nashik. As the train derailed he tried to jump out alongwith his wife but changed his mind at the last moment and instead clung to the bogie door fearing that both might drown in the swollen river, Singh said.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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