India Train Crash Survivors Recount Crushed Railcars, Dying Cries for Help

BALASORE, India—Kasida Das and her daughter were riding the train home from a nearby city in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Friday when, around 7 p.m., their carriage jolted violently, slid off the track and flipped over. Das remembers being tossed around inside the railcar, the world spinning around her. Bits of metal rained down, one striking her head. When Das was able to stand up, she saw the bloodstained face of her 35-year-old daughter under a heavy pile of debris. “She was crying, ‘Save me mother, save...