Odisha Train Accident: A worried father travelled 230 kilometres to find his son who was in a train involved in a rail accident. The father, Helaram, couldn’t find Biswajit, his son, at the crash site, so went to a local school where he found the son’s body. Rescuers had assumed that the young man was dead.Thankfully, Biswajit was still alive when his father found him. The young man is now recovering in a Kolkata hospital.
Battling the odds
According to India.com, 24-year-old Biswajit boarded the Coromandel Express from Shalimar on Friday, June 2. A few hours later, this train collided with two other trains in Balasore, Odisha. More than 275 people died in the accident and hundreds were injured.
When this news reached Helaram, Biswajit’s father, he called up Biswajit to enquire about his whereabouts. Biswajit answered the call and told Helaram that he was badly injured.
Hearing this, the worried father drove 230 kilometres to the accident site and began searching for his son. Helaram couldn’t find his son among the heap of bodies at the crash site.
Someone suggested to Helaram that he should check the local school where the dead bodies were kept.There at the school, the father found the ‘dead body’ of Biswajit. The rescuers had thought Biswajit had died in the Odisha train accident.However, luck was with Helaram. After he spotted a tiny movement in his son’s hand, Helaram took Biswajit to a Kolkata hospital for medical help. The son is now recuperating after surgery at the SSKM Medical College in Kolkata.
CBI enquiry on
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered a CBI enquiry into the triple train accident in Odisha. Preliminary reports suggest that the crash was a result of sabotage.
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