2ND LDALL ACCIDENT 3 LST

Gas and foam cutters were used to extricate the
trapped passengers, including women and children, from the
mangled bogie.

The Mewar Express, from which the damaged bogie was
detached, left for Delhi with the passengers about five
hours after the accident. Some of the passengers were also
accommodated in buses.
All the trapped passengers have been extricated, Sri
Prakash, Member (Traffic) Railway Board said.
Giving an account of the mishap, a passenger of the
Mewar Express said, "There was a loud bang. We were suddenly
thrown out of our seats. People and luggage from the upper
berths fell on us and there was panic all around.
"There was almost a stampede inside the bogie. People
sleeping on the upper berths fell off on those occupying lower
berths," said the middle-aged passenger, who was lucky to
survive the crash with no injury.
A distraught woman passenger, injured in the accident,
said from her hospital bed that she was fast asleep when the
unreserved compartment of the Mewar Express train was hit.
"I could not move my legs. Bags and suitcases fell on
me after a loud thud," she said. Passengers said the collision
occurred minutes after the Goa Express changed track.
An eye-witness, Ramesh Charan, 40, said he saw the
speeding Goa Express crashing into the last coach of the
stationary train and rushed to the accident site to lend a
helping hand. PTI MPB
PMR


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