Report on train accident
The train with passengers derails in Gorakhpur section.
Gorakhpur, Moira
3 December 2021
The train derailed in a small valley, causing a catastrophic accident on the hills in Gorakhpur area. The incident took place around 4 am while the passenger was asleep. Two bogies of the train suddenly derailed and the passengers in these bogies were injured. 20 passengers were killed and 30 others were injured in the accident. In the morning, people from nearby villages informed the police. The Commissioner of Police came and inquired into the accident and called an ambulance to rush the injured to the hospital. At the end of the investigation, it appears that he accident took place due to damaged track at one place, as a result of which the last two bogies lost their balance and derailed. The government expressed concern for the victims and their families.
A sleepless night
By a staff reporter,
Odisha, 31st December: A fearful night takes away a lot of person’s sleep. Somebody lost his family member, someone lost his mother, father, wife, and hopeless mother lost his child and break out in tears.
Yesterday, around 10:30 pm a train accident happened in Odisha. Our reporting house tried to reach there; we also connected with the place via our reporter. We get to know, that the train “Jagannath Express” runs in its track and a passenger train also came from an another track. For any kind of track fault suddenly, the train’s wheel started sparkling and on the point of time it lost his track and move in its own way and collided with the goods carrier train. A bluster happened. Local people said that the track lining process going from last few days. The Loco pilot; control the train in its own way. But the stones and the track slipped with the wheel, sparkled and this huge incident happened.
Rescued team came here after 1 1/2 hrs. The local people came out from and tried to save them but they also knew this after some time. More about 400 people dead at the place, 700 people were injured and some of them traumatized, getting panic attack and so on. The train is totally in a break condition, the driver and the co-driver were injured. The goods carrier train also lost his track and the driver also dead at the spot. Ambulance, Fire brigade and a crane came there to rescue. A half man body traced, none of his bone is in safe situation, a kid’s head fully destroyed. It couldn’t be so tolerable to see many children who are only just 1-2 yrs. lost their mother and continuous cry for feeding. Many of them found in sleepy condition death.
They started their journey 30th December for started their new year in a new way. As the next day is 1st January, Jagannath devotees wanted to start the year with them. We get to know that there also present an army family, they went to Puri for their son’s safety but unfortunately they lost their life. Bhubaneswar hospital declared that their ICU room is filled with patients. Some of them died and some of them lost their heart beats for a traumatized situation. They also said, “The child department is now out of risk but many kids get injured. It takes 5-6 Days to recover.” They also said,”they are very ashamed but they are unfortunate to save lives.” The well famous Dr. Arjun Vedi is also in a very pathetic situation. He said, “He didn’t know about this situation. When hospital called him, on that time he reached to hospital.”
The Ministry of Railway came here and actively participated with them to searching the bodies. He assured to give a safe place for the children who suddenly lost their parents. An honorable charity house came to help the children and always stay besides them as their family. He also said that, “2 Lakhs money give away to all the destroyed family and also the old people get free medical checkups in every month and their needs of anything will fulfill by Government.” The Odisha Govt. also takes a few steps for the hospitals. They provide a lot beds, Oxygen cylinders, doctors etc. many facilities.
The whole city faced a huge accident in just few hrs. This also going on for the many years. In every year almost one to two accidents happened for this cause. “But no improvement we can’t see in Railway system” as per local people. It is now fully covered and the track of Odisha closed for some days. Railway Centre declared “All the upcoming schedule train cancelled for upcoming 2 weeks.”