{"id":55675,"date":"2023-06-03T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/wailing-for-help-passengers-and-bystanders-tell-of-india-train-crash-horror"},"modified":"2023-06-04T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:14:17","slug":"wailing-for-help-passengers-and-bystanders-tell-of-india-train-crash-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55675","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wailing for help\u2019: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives tell of agony of searching for survivors among what one called \u2018heaps of bodies\u2019 as rescue activities draw to a close<\/p>\n<p>The carriages from three trains sat piled high in an entangled wreck. Some lay sideways, while others had been thrown so high into the air on impact that they had fallen back to earth twisted and upside down.<\/p>\n<p>A line of dozens of bodies covered in white sheets were laid out next to the wreckage waiting for vehicles \u2013 ambulances, local cars, even tractors \u2013 to take them away to local hospitals. Passengers\u2019 possessions lay scattered around them, shoes and toys and thrown-open suitcases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/wailing-for-help-passengers-and-bystanders-tell-of-india-train-crash-horror\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives tell of agony of searching for survivors among what one called \u2018heaps of bodies\u2019 as rescue activities draw to a closeThe carriages from three trains sat piled high in an entangled wreck. Some lay sideways, while others had been thrown so high&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-train-crashes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55709,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55675\/revisions\/55709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}