At least 275 people were killed and more than 1,000 others were injured in India after the Coromandel Express slammed into a parked freight train
“Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side,” the 32-year-old restaurant worker told CNN from a hospital in India’s eastern Odisha state. “I got up and wrapped my shirt around my bleeding head. Then, I started looking for my friends. Everyone was shouting ‘save us… save us.’” One of Kumar’s friends lost both his legs in the crash and was rushed to hospital. He did not survive his injuries.
Its carriages derailed onto the opposite track, where they were hit by an oncoming high-speed train, the Howrah Express, which was traveling from Bangalore. Many of the travelers were migrant workers, en route to Chennai, an urban metropolis in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where jobs are more freely available. Survivors recalled seeing crowded coaches, packed with travelers, when it began flipping and rolling from the crash.
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