Narrow escape from Mangala Express for Master of Social Work students
MANGALORE: Twelve Master of Social Work (MSW) students and a staff member of School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, had a miraculous escape when several coaches of the Nizamuddin-Ernakulam Mangala Express derailed near Nashik on Friday.
The MSW students and the staff member were travelling in S3 coach of the train.
They were returning after completing their rehabilitation and counselling work for the victims of the Uttarakhand tragedy. They were Odessy Singh, faculty, Avinand, Irshad, Navish, Veer Siddhu, Prakash, Sumanth, Rohan, Salman, Vijesh, Sreejesh, Infant Jesus Mathew and Cosmos, all students.
They had left for Uttarakhand on October 11. Infant Jesus Mathew, first year MSW student, told TOI: "It was around 6am the train stopped all of a sudden giving us a jolt. We thought the driver had applied brakes because there was a stop signal. When we came down we saw two bogies a little ahead of our coach were a mangled wreck and we could see one person’s body. The engine was still on the tracks. We rescued six persons and put them in the ambulance which had come within a few minutes of the accident. We could not assist as we would have wished as the rescue personnel warned us not to get anywhere near the bogies which were precariously balanced on the tracks.’’
They had to walk for about a kilometre to get to the main road and the railways had organised buses to the nearest railway station at Kasara, a railway station on the central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
They reached Kurla, about 106 km from Kasara, at 3.15 pm just a few minutes before Matsyagandha Express was to depart. Mathew at the last contact said: "We explained our situation to Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) and he told us to get into one of the bogies. Now (at 9pm), another TTE is giving us trouble questioning why we got into the reserved compartment."
Roshni Nilaya principal Sophia Fernandes received news early on Friday. ``The students broke the news slowly. I realised the gravity only after seeing the news on TV. They are really brave and coped well with the situation,’’ she said. The students will reach Mangalore on Saturday.
Sophia said: "They were selected for the psycho-social care counselling work and they had been given training by Nimhans on invitation from the Uttarakhand government and Nimhans.
``More were willing to go from Roshni Nilaya, but they were chosen since they had capability to interact with locals,’’ she said.
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