How The cruel can life be for someone?

 Last evening, Yeswanthapur Humsafar Express was travelling as per schedule from Bangalore to Kolkata. The train was passing Bahanaga Bazar station, 25 kilometres from Balasore when 3 or 4 coaches of the train got derailed at 6:55 PM. Just five minutes later, Coromandel Express travelling from Kolkata to Chennai on the same track hit the detailed train from behind, causing the coaches to get crumpled and climb over one another. As the coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed and got thrown off the tracks, it hit a goods train that was passing on the adjacent track.

Two long distance express trains and one goods train were involved in an accident, the horror of which is unimaginable! Visuals on television last night showed bodies lying on the ground, dangling from the windows with limbs missing and being in a remote location and darkness all around, evacuation process was very difficult. At 6 AM this morning, the death toll climbed to 233 with over 900 people hospitalised who were seriously injured. One can only wonder how many of these 900 people would survive!

Evacuation workers themselves are feeling demoralised. They are using gas cutters to get inside the compartments in the hope of reaching survivors but are only finding dead bodies with faces beyond recognition. Coromandel Express is also called ambulance train, as many people from Kolkata travel to Vellore on this train to get treatment. Who knew these people who wanted to get better treatment, get recovered, get their loved ones hospitalised would meet this fate last night!

233 is just the official number. The evacuation process is still going on this morning and bodies are being recovered every minute. The railway tracks got bent and entered into the coaches of the train — that tells you how strong the impact was! Human life holds no value and such tragic incidents are a reminder of it. Had the Kavach application been installed on the trains, the collision could have been avoided, but it looks like people are more concerned with luxury rather than safety. Hence, bullet trains and Vande Bharat Express are being launched one after the other, but the Kavach application, which was planned way back in 2012, has not been started yet.