BHUBANESWAR: It was by a sheer stroke of luck that M K Deb and his eight-year-old daughter, Swati swapped their seats in the ill-fated Coromandel Express and defied death at the last moment on Friday evening.
The father-daughter duo boarded the train at Kharagpur and were supposed to get down at Cuttack as they had an appointment with a doctor on Saturday. Though they had the tickets to travel in a third AC coach, the child insisted on sitting near a window.
