Patna. A terrible train accident took place in Buxar, Bihar on the night of 11 October. The North East Superfast train, which started from Delhi’s Anand Vihar Terminal and was going towards Kamakhya (Assam) via Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, met with an accident here.
21 bogies of the train derailed. Four passengers died in this accident, while about 80 people are said to be injured. The condition of many of them is critical. Eyewitnesses of this accident have narrated their painful ordeal.
He told that at the time of the accident, almost everyone in the AC bogie was asleep. Meanwhile he started getting shocks. People started falling down from the berth. People felt these tremors for about 15 minutes.
The accident was so terrible that someone got stuck in the toilet, someone under the berth and someone under the window. Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced an ex-gratia amount of Rs 4 lakh each to the dependents of the passengers who lost their lives in the North East Express train accident.
Let us tell you, the echo of this train accident was heard several kilometers away. Hearing this terrible echo, hundreds of villagers living nearby reached there. He immediately started helping people. A woman traveling in the train said that the scene was very bad.
We are not even able to think anything right now. Everyone was resting after eating food. Everyone was happy. Our food was about to arrive. So we were sitting waiting for him. We were talking about the fact that the front coaches of the train look new and nice.
Our coach should also have been good. Suddenly there was a loud thunder. We felt that the speed of the train had been increased. But, within a few moments the bogie overturned. After this there was screaming in the coach. People were crying. We are feeling very sad.
Another male passenger said that he felt a sudden shock. At first we thought that such shocks keep happening in trains. After some time the power went out. First we fell on the right side, then on the left. Then it came to light that the coach had overturned. The speed of the train was also not high. After the accident we were immediately given first aid. Injection was given.