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Hours after the Odisha train crash, one of India's worst, survivors shared horror stories of the moment the trains collided, reports NDTV.
Sanjay Mukhia, a daily wage worker travelling to Chennai on the Coromandel-Shalimar Express, had gone to the toilet when he felt a huge jolt.
"Everything was shaking and we could feel the coach toppling," Mukhia, who is from Bihar, told NDTV.
He was rescued from the wreckage shortly afterwards.
Visuals from the accident site showed coaches on top of each other and twisted steel, with passengers' belongings strewn all over. Lines of bodies were collected by rescue workers and more were being extricated from the wreckage.
According to one survivor, severed limbs were scattered over the ripped metal wreckage.
"I was sleeping when the train derailed. Some 10-15 people fell over me. When I came out of the coach, I saw limbs scattered all around, a leg here, a hand there...someone's face was disfigured," the survivor said.
Mohammad Aqueeb was travelling in a big group of 26 in three coaches. The group mostly included students heading to Kerala.
"We were inside the S-4, S-3, S-2 coaches. Suddenly we heard a loud crash and the coaches flipped over. We were all safe," Aqueeb said.
The group was brought out through the windows of the smashed coaches. "We are lucky to be alive. We don't want to go anywhere now but back home to Bihar," he said.
More than 230 people have been killed and around 900 injured in the three-train crash that took place last evening.
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