A signal error that led a train to wrongly change tracks is to blame for the crash in eastern India that killed nearly 300 people and injured hundreds more, officials say.
The first thing that Anubhav Das remembers seeing after escaping his carriage was hundreds of bodies, and people crying for help with brutal injuries to their arms, legs and heads.
He described making makeshift bandages out of bedsheets from other carriages as young children cried out for their parents. Das said he did not fully realize the extent of the disaster he had survived until he turned on his television the next day. “I was actually dumbstruck. I could not even imagine that you could get out of something like this absolutely unscathed," he added.commended citizens who “immersed themselves” in assisting with rescue operations as he visited the site of the disaster Saturday.
Officials displayed pictures of victims for family members to identify bodies at a business park used as temporary mortuary.The derailment has raised new questions about Modi’s effort to upgrade and modernize a British colonial-era railroad network that is still beset by deadly accidents. The government has spent billions in an effort to make India's rail 100% electric by 2024, the same year he faces an election., or the use of outdated signaling equipment.
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