Godhra

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030302/asp/...ory_1714045.asp

Survivors account.His statement corroborates Gayatri's statement from the post above who also escaped from a window must have been the same window.

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He remembers the stones, the petrol-soaked burning rags and the swords.

The passengers out on the platform had scrambled in and pulled down window shutters and shot the bolt on the door. The train moved, but within moments it came to a halt. Hari Prasad said it appeared as if someone had pulled the emergency chain.

Then he saw burning rags flying in through the only window that was left open. Within minutes, smoke was swirling inside the compartment and his fellow passengers were gasping.

“No one could have survived the noxious fumes from the burning plastic and foam,’’ Hari Prasad says. “I saw my wife struggling to breathe. But at that moment, the only thing on my mind was how to escape.”

Hari Prasad did escape but a year later, he hasn’t escaped the after-effects. After vomiting reddish-black soot for almost eight days then, he now suffers from convulsive fits.

“I held my breath for as long as I could,” Hari Prasad says. “After what seemed like an eternity, I saw an open window. The grill had been smashed. I crawled out. My wife had already died.’’<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->