Lucknow:
Passengers who escaped the Doon Express accident at Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh arrived in the state capital on Friday and recounted their ordeal and horror of the previous afternoon.
A special rescue train brought more than two dozen passengers from the mishap site in Jaunpur. Five coaches of the Doon Express derailed on Thursday afternoon, killing six and injuring about 100 passengers.
Madhu Gupta, one of the survivors, recounted her harrowing experience, and explained how the accident took place moments after the train had chugged out of the Jaunpur station.
Madhu who was on a trip to Dehradun from Varanasi was travelling in the S-6 coach with her family. When they had barely finished their lunch, the coach overturned all of a sudden with a screeching sound and got dragged over several metres.
"I lost consciousness thereafter and recovered my senses only when people were helping us out of the bogey," she said.
Along with over two dozen passengers, her family was brought from the accident site to Varanasi by a special train and then sent to Lucknow on board the Shramjeevi Express.
Other survivors too recounted their horrifying experience.
Abhishek Gupta, a traveller to Dehradun, said that two of his co-passengers had perished in the mishap and that he was fortunate to be alive. Other passengers who were brought back to Lucknow said that they were too shell-shocked to talk to the media and wanted to be left alone.
"I just thank god that I am alive," muttered an elderly lady, who had her forehead bandaged.