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Source: IANS.  


Ahmedabad, April 13: A passenger of the Sabarmati Express Wednesday recounted his survival during the 2002 fire tragedy involving the train at Godhra station before a commission investigating widespread communal violence in the state. 

Hariprasad Joshi, a resident of the city who was in the train's coach S-6 coach that caught fire, deposed before the commission of Justice (retd) G.T. Nanavati and Justice (retd) K.G. Shah here.

Joshi told the commission that he and his wife took the Sabarmati Express from Lucknow while returning after meeting relatives in Nepal.

Though he could manage to crawl out of the coach when it caught fire at Godhra railway station, 130 km from here, his wife died of asphyxiation.

Contradicting the state investigators' theory that a mob of Muslims set the coach on fire after throwing petrol, Joshi repeatedly said he did not feel any liquid as he tried to come out of the coach.

"As the train was leaving Godhra station, it came to a halt and I heard shouts to close the windows. Stone pelting started from the platform side. Soon, the coach was engulfed in fumes, though I did not see any fire," Joshi said.

"As I reached the end of the coach, I found one of the two doors open though I do not know who had opened it. As I came out of the coach from the door on the yard side there was nobody to stop me," he said.
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