CHENNAI: Shaken could be an understatement if one had been to explain the trauma undergone by the 137 survivors of the Coromandel Specific prepare accident, who arrived at Dr MGR Chennai Central Railway station in a particular prepare on Sunday morning.
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A most cancers affected person and her household from Bangladesh, a Kendriya Vidyalaya instructor, BSF personnel and their households, migrant employees and plenty of others, travelled 1000’s of kilometres in one other prepare to Chennai — shuddering each time the locomotive picked up pace because the harrowing expertise aboard the Coromandel Specific on Friday night had left them in a state of shock.

After the particular prepare chugged into platform quantity 11 of the Chennai Central railway station at 4.20am on Sunday, Farzana Islam, a girl from Bangladesh who appeared in her late 40s had been among the many first few passengers to alight from coach B3. She regarded exhausted as Well being minister Ma Subramanian and well being secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi enquired about her well being and directed the medical employees to take her to the assistance desk.
“We got here two days in the past to India and had been headed to Chennai for my spouse’s most cancers therapy in a personal hospital in Chennai. Subsequently we needed to depart for Vellore for additional remedy. It was a nightmarish expertise that we had, and my spouse and daughters sustained accidents of their palms. Fortunately some folks helped us and we arrived right here safely,” narrated a drained wanting Waliyul Islam.

Those that travelled by common compartment mentioned they’d a close to demise expertise. Sadam Hussain from Bihar had boarded the final compartment of Coromandel Specific to journey to Chennai after which take one other prepare to Kerala. He was within the third compartment from the engine he says and his coach toppled within the accident.
“There was commotion and no lights. We groped at midnight and holding the door deal with we climbed up after which slowly acquired right down to security. I sustained accidents on my palm. After I regarded forward our bodies had been strewn all over the place. The final coaches forward of ours had been crumbled,” he recounted.
In the meantime, 38-year-old BSF personnel Kanagaraj posted in Kolkata and was on his manner house for trip when the accident occurred. He sustained harm on his left arm.
“I felt the prepare selecting up pace after which after a while I heard sounds. Somebody fell on my hand, and I acquired injured,” he recalled. Regardless of this he rescued folks from the prepare and took them to security.
Sivaranjani and her daughter Sanjana Sri had gone to Kolkata for trip and had been returning to Chennai when the mishap occurred. “My husband Satish Kumar works within the BSF. After being pulled out of the A 2 coach, I used to be shocked to see our bodies being carried in tractors and lorries. After ready there until 11 p.m, we had been taken to a hospital in a personal college bus from Odisha and subsequently preparations had been made to journey to Chennai,” he added.
Shamsudin, Kendriya Vidyalaya instructor from Payyanur, his spouse Sameera T P, Payyanur municipal councillor and son Sadath had gone to Kolkata to assist their son settle within the new metropolis as he had acquired a job there.
“One aspect of our B 4 compartment was broken, and smoke engulfed our coach. We someway managed to get out. A LLB scholar Archie Sharma was travelling alone and sought our assist to succeed in Bhubaneshwar. We booked a automobile and took her alongside,” he added.
Pleasure, a BSF personnel and his household had been coming back from Kolkata after his retirement perform. “We needed to go to Thrissur, and the connecting prepare was from Chennai. It was fortunate we escaped unscathed,” he mentioned.
After the exhaustive journey, 18 passengers with accidents had been taken to the Rajiv Gandhi Authorities Common Hospital and others sipped some tea and awaited their transport to totally different inns or to their properties.

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