Stuffy moments in runaway train

mumbai - At least 500 train passengers in India have been scared to death when the 22 wagons in which they were parked rolled over a length of 13 kilometers at high speed of a slope. The train started to move due to a technical error. Eventually the colossus came to a standstill after bystanders threw sticks and stones on the track to slow down the train.

According to local media, the train started to move when one of the cars broke away from a locomotive. On images appearing on social media, it can be seen that the train is thrashing past stations. Helpless passengers call for assistance from bystanders with busy arm gestures. The error was reported immediately, so that traces later on the route were cleared in time.

As a result of the near-disaster, seven employees of the railways were put on non-active. Safety on the heavily outdated track in India is more often the subject of discussion. In August 2016, 23 people were killed in a derailment in Khatauli. Trains in India are often overcrowded. According to official data, as many as 30,000 people have been killed in train traffic since 2015, CNN reports.