“A heavy jerk followed a loud sound. I fell from my berth and everything went blank,” said a survivor of the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train, which derailed in West Bengal’s New Jalpaiguri district on Thursday, leading to the death of seven people and injury of 45 passengers.
Twelve coaches of the train jumped the rails, and some of them overturned near Domohani. The accident occurred at around 5 pm in an area under the Alipurduar division of Northeast Frontier Railway, an NFR spokesperson said in Guwahati.
A partially mangled coach got perched atop another under the impact, while a few bogies had hurtled down the slope and overturned.
