Policemen inspect the wreckage of bogies after two express trains derailed in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh.
One of the trains was the Varanasi-bound Kamayani Express which derailed at about 11.20 p.m. Less than 15 minutes later, the Mumbai-bound Janata Express on the parallel track also met the same fate - at that very spot.
Desperate passengers screamed in pain and terror as they tried to claw their way out of the mangled coaches. A few managed to come out, bruised and bleeding, but some couldn't.
Rescuers look for survivors at the site where two express trains derailed in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh.
Ajay Kumar, 45, a Janata Express passenger going from Bihar to Mumbai, said his wife Kanchan Bai died in the horrific accident.
"There was a huge jolt. I managed to come out of the coach with my daughter. But I saw my wife was still inside the coach which began to fill with water quickly... I saw my wife die."
Another woman who was warded in the hospital said she was in a coach which suddenly tilted to one side.
"It was really frightening... People tried to go from one coach to another. I have no idea how I escaped. I thank god that I am alive," she told journalists.
The shaken survivors said they were jolted out of their sleep when their coach fell into the river with a roar.
