Kolkata: Sayantani Ghosh, a resident of Picnic Garden in South Kolkata, remains to be in a state of shock and can’t imagine that she has been capable of come again to her house alive alongside together with her three-year-old daughter. “I was going to Chennai by the Coromandel Express with my daughter to meet my husband, who stays there for professional reasons. I was travelling in an A1 coupe. Suddenly there were two massive jerks. The impact was such that many fell down on the floor. Fortunately, most of the passengers were occupying the lower berths then. Otherwise, the casualties could have been much more,” she stated.
Ghosh is the survivor of the ghastly practice accident in Odisha`s Balasore district on Friday which claimed 288 lives apart from leaving over 800 others injured. According to Ghosh, she remains to be in a shock pondering of the scene on the accident spot. She nonetheless can not imagine that she has in the end been capable of return house unhurt on Saturday together with her daughter.
“But whenever I close my eyes, the screams of the injured passengers and the smashed bodies haunt me,” Ghosh stated. Putu Sheikh, a migratory employee from East Burdwan district, and 10 of his mates had a slender escape on Friday. “We were travelling by that train in search of a job in South India. Suddenly, we heard a massive sound and felt successive jerks. The lights in the compartment got switched off. We somehow managed to get out of the train. The screams of the injured were haunting. There were piles of bodies… I am really scared to travel by train again,” he stated.
However, there was no excellent news for the relations of Pinaki Mondal, a resident of Shyampur in Howrah. “My father used to stay in Odisha to earn his livelihood. Recently he came home to meet us and he was going back on Friday by that train. In the evening, we heard of the accident. Finally, this morning we came to know that my father is no more,” stated a sobbing Barsha Mondal, the sufferer`s daughter.
There can also be no information about Chandan Roy and his relative Nityam Roy, each residents of South Dinajpur district, who had been travelling by that ill-fated practice. Nityam`s spouse Chandana Roy instructed newspersons that after she obtained the information of the accident, she known as up each of them. “Chandan`s mobile phone was switched off. When I called Nitaym, someone else picked up the call and informed me that the owner of the phone has died. Then that phone first got disconnected and then got switched off. However, there is no confirmation of what I was told. I am feeling clueless,” she stated.
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