Many of the hundreds of people injured in India's latest railway disaster are being treated at the overwhelmed hospital of Balasore, a small town in a poor part of the West Bengal state in the east of the country.
One of the volunteers who rushed here to help described blood all over the floors as the hospital tried to cope with the number of casualties.
This is a small town in a poor part of West Bengal, suddenly on the front line of the worst train crash this century.Gura said he was 'crushed' during the collisionHe described the sudden moment he felt a huge jolting pressure as two trains collided."The two carriages crushed us. We were four of us. I felt throttled as I was thrown out of the carriage and got out.
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