“Never expected that I would see this kind of horrific accident in my life. Dead bodies all around, many limbless, people screaming for help stuck inside the coaches. I saw people with dismembered limbs and disfigured faces. This incident will haunt me for my whole life,” Samanth Jain, 40, a native of Chikkamagaluru district in Karnataka who survived the train crash in Odisha on June 2 told The Hindu.
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He, along with 110 people from Karnataka, was on ‘Shikharji Yatra,’ a pilgrimage to the holiest Jain teerth. Recalling the incident, he said, “Around 8.30 p.m., the train suddenly stopped when we were all busy doing the pooja part of the yatra. Everyone was confused. Just a few minutes before stopping, we heard a loud noise which was similar to a vehicle accident. We all started to get down and walked at least three kilometres towards the back of the train, and then we saw a horrific accident where three or four coaches were on top of each other and twisted steel, with passengers’ belongings strewn all over.”
