As the man fell onto the tracks, Uma rushed to him and carefully guarded the man s head making him lean away from the moving train and towards the platform so that he did not get hurt. She also helped him keep still and until the train could make an emergency stop.
The cause of the downward slide of the village is the widening work on the Sobla-Tidang road besides underground water bodies that are making their way downwards resulting in weakening of the land surface on which the village is situated.
"Suddenly there was a sound of whistling. there was shouting, people were telling us to come out. We thought it was a fire. We started running but the water gushed in. It was like a Hollywood movie," a survivor said.