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Will haunt me for years to come: Survivors share chilling accounts of train tragedy on social media | India News

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BHUBANESWAR: Social media platforms have been trending with aerial shots, photographs, videos and condolence messages since the terrible triple train tragedy occurred at Bahanaga in Balasore district on Friday evening. Starting from world leaders to celebrities, common people to eyewitnesses and survivors are pouring their hearts out on social media platforms and expressing their grief and pain on the tragic incident that killed at least 288 people and injure around 800.
A survivor, Anubhav Das, who was travelling in the Coromandel Express, one of the three trains involved in the accident, shared chilling accounts of the train tragedy. “I am extremely thankful to have escaped unscathed. It probably is the biggest train accident. It was a scene that will keep scaring me for years to come. Not to exaggerate but I have myself witnessed more than 200-250 deaths. Families crushed, limbless bodies and bloodbath on the train tracks,” Das wrote in his twitter post.
Young Anubha Bharti tweeted, “Where would have all these people been headed and how their life would have changed with this. Whenever we travel longer distances, we have such a sense of purpose usually (sic) … going to wedding, for a new job, to home, to study at a new place, or to start a new life. But they end up on a heap of bodies.”
Netizens also raised question about the signaling and track safety and how train journeys in India can be made safer. Many have also been asking question about why an indigenous Automatic Train Protection system called Kavach was not installed in the trains.
People described it as the most horrible train accident in the decades and posted pictures of horribly mangled coaches on the railway track. A heart-wrenching video of a man searching for his son has also gone viral on the social media platforms. Many shared pictures and videos of people standing in queue till late night to donate blood for the injured, and those donating bloods.

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