Several survivors of the train derailment in India, which killed 275 people and injured hundreds, say they are still struggling to comprehend the disaster.
Gura Pallay was watching another train pass by the one he was sitting in when he heard sudden, loud screeching. Before he could make sense of what was happening, he was thrown out of the train.
"I saw it with my own eyes, but I still can't describe what I saw. I am haunted by it," he said Sunday at a hospital, where he lay on a stretcher with a broken leg and dark wounds on his face and arms. The crash occurred as Modi's government is focusing on the modernization of India's colonial-era railroad network."Everything happened so quickly," said Subhashish Patra, a student who was travelling with his family from Balasore to the state capital, Bhubaneswar, on the Coromandel Express. He was planning to take his mother to a hospital in Bhubaneswar to seek treatment for a hand injury, and then to travel to Puri, home to one of Odisha's most important temples.
Others weren't so lucky. On Monday, many people were still lined up outside a hospital in the state capitol waiting to identify and collect the bodies of relatives.
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