How do you write an eye witness report on train accident.


Miss Nidhi of Moradabad writes the report.


It was around 3.15 a.m. on 25 December 2023 when the Jammu-Sealdah expressed slamned into the Amritsar bound Frontier mail that had vaulted off its track minutes earlier. The accident occurred between kaudi and Daudpur village outside with outer reaches of Khanna railway station about 228 km south-east of Amritsar. I was sleeping in the train when I first heard thunder noise. I fell from bunk. The lights went out the same moment. It was totally dark and I could hear only shrill voices, crying in pain, pleading for help. I tried to look for my co-passengers, a young lady and her 6 year old son. I could not find them. I got out of the compartment. Local villagers had already rushed in and started the rescue work. I heard one woman trapped beneath the wreckage shrieking, "Cut off my legs, cut off my arms, just save me".  I was another woman trapped inside. Her legs were dangling from the compartment. Along with the other people I tried to make her free. But she could not be free because the compartment was at the bottom of the pile. Helplessly I saw her dying. Letter I saw the smashed bodies of co-passengers laying in a pool of blood.

                 Medical relief trains from Ambala arrived at the spot. The injured were taken to hospitals in Khanna and Ludhiana. The villagers were joined by several army and police personnel to stop up the rescue work. While some of them were busy in recovering the dead bodies and cleaning the debris, of the trains. We would have died if the villagers had not saved us. I hope no one ever passes through this experience.