When India s worst train accident in more than 20 years happened just outside his home, Hiranmay Rath said it felt "like the sky was falling on us or the earth was cracking open".
The toll in the tragic triple train accident in Odisha has risen to 261 and is expected to rise, South Eastern Railway officials said on Saturday. The rescue operations have been completed, and the teams are now focusing on recovery.
Many of the passengers were still in shock and yet to tell their families that they nearly died in one of the country's worst rail disasters in decades