Samaritans of the night
It is unlikely that the blood stains at the Coromandel accident site can be wiped so soon.
The trauma, the heartrending screams for help, the littered human limbs and the horrifying silence of the aftermath would continue of haunt the ones who witnessed the dance of death that evening.
But the guts, dare and tenacity that demonstrated the locals was no less absorbing. Donating about 1,200 units of blood to the injured in the hospitals was a sheer show of humanity.
As described to Mobilenews24x7 by a local scribe, “words fail to describe what happened. We were in the near vicinity when we heard the huge bang of a crash as it earth underneath was slithering” said Somnath Behuria(name changed).
“But the part played by the administration and the railway department was disappointing in its response to a tragedy of that magnitude “ quipped Behuria
“On that fateful evening the collision in Balasore railway track could have been averted with all the safety mechanism which were not there what some official of Railway confided to us” Behuria went on.
At such times no soul can resist himself and Behuria and his two other colleagues rushed towards the collision spot and were just unnerved by what they saw. Toppled and mangled coaches, some eyes from within looking up for help while some were closed forever.
“We hung on there for that time till the state police and rescue squads arrived. By that time many dead and fatally injured the locals managed to pull out were being ferried to nearby hospitals in two ambulances and private vehicles”
What the locals saw as pressing at that time to rush to designated health centres where the inured must have the need of blood and the local youths did the wonder and donated blood standing in the queues almost.
