DC Edit | Fear, panic lead to train deaths
Deccan ChronicleIt would be a sacrilege to borrow Donald Trump’s phrase in describing the turn of events with people losing their homes to the Los Angeles wildfires, which he said was “interesting.” In a turn of events at home best described as bizarre, the year’s first bad train accident took place, costing around a dozen lives. Even as the Indian Railway is recovering from a wave of accidents in 2023 and 2024 that cost hundreds of lives, including the worst mishap in 2023 in which a train ran into a stationary foods train and a third train, an express speeding on a parallel track, ran into the carriages that had derailed and fallen in its path. The ill-fated passengers of the Lucknow-Mumbai Pushpak Express must curse their ill fortune for having panicked when hearing a rumour of a fire in the compartment that may have been caused by mechanical problems in the running stock. Simply put — this is us when it comes to public safety, including in jumping off trains and running helter-skelter in panic even after the train had stopped.
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