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RSS men were saviours as cops did a Nero - The Hindustan Times
HT Correspondent
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29 July 1997
Title: RSS men were saviours as cops did a Nero
Author: HT Correspondent
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: July 29, 1997
Dressed in khakhi shorts Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers turned
saviors at the Faridabad railway station where a train accident claimed 12
lives and left over 68 others injured last night.
Even as the RSS workers rescued the victims and rushed them to the
hospitals, another group of khakhi-clad persons - the Railway Protection
Force (RPF) and the local police personnel, stood as mute spectators.
As the news of the rail accident spread across Faridabad city about 11.30
p.m. a good money RSS workers quickly reached the area.
They initiated the rescue operations.
To keep curious onlookers at bay, a group of RSS workers first cordoned off
the area.
Before the ill-equipped police personnel could react and even before the
railway authorities reached the area with medical help, the volunteers, had
collected all the equipment required for rescuing victims and taking them
to the nearest hospitals.
The accident relief train reached the area three hours after the accident
occurred.
Using gas cutters and others equipment a group of volunteers started taking
out victims from the bogies, which had been reduced to mangled pieces of iron.
Other volunteers arranged for two vans.
This victims were taken out and rushed to three hospitals in the vans.
Beside rescue operations, the volunteers regulated the movements of onlookers.
The rescue operations lasted throughout the night and the volunteers
provided all possible information to anxious relatives of the victims who
started reaching the spot by early morning.
The morning, as the repair work on the railway track started, the
volunteers installed two assistance booths for the relatives of the victims.
The volunteers kept a record of those injured and the hospitals where they
were admitted. At the hospital, they ensured that the relatives traced out
their near and dear ones.
A volunteers went around inquiring about the identity of a two-year-old
girl who was admitted at the Escorts hospital and was unclaimed till late
evening.
The volunteers also prepared a list of valuables that they had recovered
from the victims.
They were handing out the valuables to the relatives of the victims when
they reached the spot of accident.
The RSS volunteers also made makeshift camps in the hospitals to help the
victims and their relatives.
Almost 12 hours after the accident occurred, the volunteers were regulating
the movement of curious onlookers even as a handful of police personnel sat
and watched helplessly.
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