"I thought I was dead, and then I passed out."
At least 145 people were killed and
150 more injured when a train derailed in northern India on Sunday, police say.
Key
points:
-Fourteen carriages of an express
train derail near Indian city of Kanpur
-Officials say death toll is at 145,
with more than 150 people injured
-Prime Minister Narendra Modi
expresses concern over incident, Government to investigate cause
The passenger train was about midway
through a 27-hour journey between the cities of Indore and Patna when it slid
off the tracks at 3:10am (local time), jolting awake passengers who had settled
in to sleep.
The impact was so strong that one of
the coaches landed on top of another, crushing the one below.
Passengers said they heard the crash
as they were flung from their beds.
"There was a loud sound like an
earthquake. I fell from my berth and a lot of luggage fell over me,"
Ramchandra Tewari, who suffered a head injury, said from his hospital bed in
the city of Kanpur.
Rescue workers, soldiers and members
of India's disaster management force worked through the night to pull out
people trapped amid the twisted metal and overturned coaches near Pukhrayan, a
village outside the industrial city of Kanpur about 400km south-east of New
Delhi.
Rescuers used cutting torches to pry
open cars and cranes to lift coaches from the tracks, moving carefully to
prevent any cars from toppling over and injuring those trapped inside.
By Monday morning (local time), they
had searched the last of the 14 wrecked cars, but had yet to lift the coach
from the tracks to see if more bodies had been trapped beneath.
Dr Aneeta Singh, the chief medical
officer of Kanpur Dehat district said at least 145 people had died, of which
116 had been identified.
Medical teams provided first aid near
the site, while the more seriously injured were moved to hospitals in Kanpur,
including 72 in serious condition, police director-general Daljeet Chaudhary
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