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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 21, 2016, 06:24 AM Nov 2016

Rescuers Finish Search of Indian Train Wreck, 127 Dead

Source: AP

Rescuers finished searching the last of 14 mangled train carriages that derailed in northern India, killing at least 127 people and leaving about 150 more injured, police said early Monday.

The passenger train was about midway through a 27-hour journey between the cities of Indore and Patna when it slid off the tracks at 3:10 a.m. Sunday, jolting awake passengers who had settled in to sleep.

The impact was so strong that one of the coaches landed on top of another, crushing the one below. Passengers said they heard the crash as they were flung from their beds.

"There was a loud sound like an earthquake. I fell from my berth and a lot of luggage fell over me," Ramchandra Tewari, who suffered a head injury, said from his hospital bed in the city of Kanpur. "I thought I was dead, and then I passed out."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-northern-india-train-derailment-jumps-63-43666518

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Rescuers Finish Search of Indian Train Wreck, 127 Dead (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2016 OP
... shenmue Nov 2016 #1
Such an awful accident. japple Nov 2016 #2
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