Carriages perched on top of each other and lines of bodies collected by rescue workers: as dawn broke on Saturday, it revealed the horror of one of India's deadliest railway crashes.
Involving two passenger trains and another carrying goods, the accident saw one train ram so hard into another that carriages were lifted high into the air, twisting and then smashing off the tracks.On the ground - and squashed into the ripped metal wreckage and what were once benches in the carriage - travellers' belongings lay scattered: a suitcase, a child's shoe and piles of clothes.
Overnight, images broadcast on local television stations showed long lines of bodies laid out with white sheets covering some, as rescue workers carried them away on stretchers.Teams using metal cutting tools prised open gaps in the torn sides of carriages in a desperate search to reach those trapped inside, pulling out survivors and bodies.
Throughout the night, the death toll jumped repeatedly, as emergency services added up the number of bodies collected: from 50, to over 100, to nearly 300. The near-constant sound of ambulance sirens wailed in the background, rushing those pulled out of the wreckage alive to hospital.From a distance, residents stood watching the efforts.
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