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Despair at wrecked train site
May 28, 2010
Teams of paramedics stretchered the injured away from the site, with the worst cases being air lifted out by air force helicopters doing regular shuttle runs to the nearest hospitals. -- PHOTO: AFP
SARDIHA (India) - RESCUERS were using bolt cutters to try and force a way into the carriages, but had to work around horribly injured passengers caught in the mass of twisted steel.
'Some of them are so badly trapped that the best we can do for the moment is try to give them some sort of first aid where they are,' a rescuer said.
Teams of paramedics stretchered the injured away from the site, with the worst cases being air lifted out by air force helicopters doing regular shuttle runs to the nearest hospitals.
The bodies of those who could not be saved were laid out by the tracks, where they were inspected by surviving passengers desperately searching for missing family members.
One survivor, Vinayak Sadna, said he had been sleeping when his carriage lurched violently to one side and then flipped over, throwing him and his fellow passengers against the sides and roof of the compartment.
'I ended up stuck between two seats with an iron bar crushing my hand,' Mr Sadna said. 'I was trapped for three hours before I was pulled out. My wife is still missing.' Some of those who managed to get out alive voiced anger at what they felt was the slow response of the emergency services, saying they had to wait more than three hours for first responders to arrive on the scene. -- AFP
May 28, 2010
Teams of paramedics stretchered the injured away from the site, with the worst cases being air lifted out by air force helicopters doing regular shuttle runs to the nearest hospitals. -- PHOTO: AFP
SARDIHA (India) - RESCUERS were using bolt cutters to try and force a way into the carriages, but had to work around horribly injured passengers caught in the mass of twisted steel.
'Some of them are so badly trapped that the best we can do for the moment is try to give them some sort of first aid where they are,' a rescuer said.
Teams of paramedics stretchered the injured away from the site, with the worst cases being air lifted out by air force helicopters doing regular shuttle runs to the nearest hospitals.
The bodies of those who could not be saved were laid out by the tracks, where they were inspected by surviving passengers desperately searching for missing family members.
One survivor, Vinayak Sadna, said he had been sleeping when his carriage lurched violently to one side and then flipped over, throwing him and his fellow passengers against the sides and roof of the compartment.
'I ended up stuck between two seats with an iron bar crushing my hand,' Mr Sadna said. 'I was trapped for three hours before I was pulled out. My wife is still missing.' Some of those who managed to get out alive voiced anger at what they felt was the slow response of the emergency services, saying they had to wait more than three hours for first responders to arrive on the scene. -- AFP
