India, Aug. 20 -- "I was close to having a heart attack inside the train," was how Amey Bane, a corporate employee working in Lower Parel, summed up the experience. Bane is not a regular monorail commuter. "I live in Ghatkopar and six of us decided to take the monorail, as some of them lived in Chembur, where the monorail travels," said Bane. "Look at my shirt, it's drenched in sweat as we were trapped inside with no ventilation for over an hour."
Desperate, 582 commuters waited 90 minutes before the first of them could be pulled out. With no lights or proper ventilation, they tried to break the windows, gasping for air. "We were desperately calling all the contacts we could, including the emergency numbers like 100 and 102. We got throu...
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