They were brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at noon. While Titu was removed immediately to a private hospital in Lajpat Nagar, Jaipal was admitted in the Emergency but to no avail. The doctors declared him brain dead and by evening he had been taken away by his father and two younger brothers.

Navin Chaha, Jaipal's friend, who along with another friend, Mohan Gupta, brought the two boys to AIIMS, says that he got down from the train at Safdarjung station with four of his friends after they were told that one of them, Titu, had fallen off the train.

``We ran one-and-a-half kilometres from the station. I was expecting only Titu and was shocked to see Jaipal also lying there unconscious,'' he says. ``There were three or four others also lying there. One man was beheaded and I nearly stepped over his head as I rushed to pick up Jaipal. His younger brother was sitting near him and crying. There was no one to help him''. ``Many people were standing at the door of the train and we heard people cry out that some people had fallen down. They were hit by iron poles as there was no space between the train and the poles,'' says Gupta. The iron poles had been dug close to the tracks for some construction work.

Only four of the eleven friends who had set out together for the fair got down to rescue the accident victims. ``Four others who were with us did not know about it and they are probably at the fair now,'' says Chaha.

``They should stop this train. There was not an inch inside for people to stand. Many boys were standing at the doors and there is very little gap between the poles and the doors. Don't those who let in passengers know that it is dangerous to let them stand at the doors?'' asks Gupta.