Terrifying accident India train crash kills more than 140

Family members are mourning their lost loved ones as India reels from a deadly train crash.
More than 140 people were killed when several train cars derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh early Sunday morning.
"All of a sudden there was a massive jerk," Ravindra Pathak said in the aftermath of the deadly derailment. "Our heads collided with the roof of the carriage."
Among the passengers were Rakesh Verma and his new wife, as well as other members of their wedding party.
"There's a little girl, she's two-and-a-half years old, we can't find her or my mother in the wreck," Verma's brother told CNN affiliate News 18.
The train, which links the central Indian city of Indore to the city of Patna in its north east, was halfway through its journey when it went off the track near Kanpur, around 300 miles southeast of New Delhi.
After almost an entire day of work, the site of the accident has now been cleared, Ahmed said.
In total, 110 bodies have been identified, with 97 handed over to the victims' families. Around 50 people remain under treatment in hospital, of 169 injured.
One survivor told News 18 the train started shaking with "screeching sounds" early Sunday.
"I felt as though metal was clashing with metal, it was like a collision. My upper berth was almost tilted by the time the train halted," Shresth said.
Shresth -- who goes by one name as do many people in India -- said he was one of the first to climb out of the wreckage. He was traveling with a friend to the city of Lucknow to attend an event, he said. 
 
When they tried to leave through one of the doors, they found the corridor littered with bodies, he said.
"I did not want to step on the bodies so we took the other door, but by the time we deboarded, all I could see were either dead people or children crying for their parents," Shresth said.
The pair used GPS navigation to make their way to a nearby village hospital. Later they saw ambulances arrive.
Shresth said the accident "shook him for life."

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