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Odisha Train Accident: 101 Unclaimed Bodies Lying at Hospital, Families in Chaos
Odisha Train Accident: 101 Unclaimed Bodies Lying at Hospital, Families in Chaos
Sputnik India
On 2 June, 278 people died and more than 900 were injured after three trains hit each other in Odisha's Balasore district.
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Four days after one of the deadliest train accidents in India, families of passengers are still unable to find their relations. They are now wandering from hospitals and makeshift mortuaries to the accident site in the hope of finding their families.At the same time the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in Odisha's capital city Bhubaneswar said that 101 dead bodies from the accident site remain unidentified.According to media reports, many bodies are so badly disfigured by the accident that family members cannot recognise the member. Such bodies are being viewed only via slides.The same images can also be accessed via the Odisha government website, with a warning for users not to open the images in front of children. The fatal accident on Friday night involved three trains – two passenger trains and one goods train. The first passenger train, the Coromandel Express, travelling from Howrah to Chennai, derailed and hit the freight train parked at the loop line near Odisha's Balasore.The preliminary report says that the Coromandel Express was initially given the green signal to enter the Up Main Line. But the signal was later turned off. After this, the express train entered a loop line.Minutes later, the Bengaluru-Howrah Express, which was coming on a different track, fell off because the coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed on the Bengaluru-Howrah Express track.Although trains started to run again on Sunday night, coaches remained at the crash sites, with people and journalists still visiting the site.Villagers and residents who live near the crash sites told the media that people from far away are visiting the accident sites, trying to get information, and speaking with native people, hopeful but angry with the administration.Rinkesh Roy, a senior railway official, told Indian media that about 200 people are now being treated in various hospitals in Odisha. And Vijay Amruta Kulange, Commissioner of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, told news agency ANI: "Of the 193 bodies kept in Bhubaneswar, 80 have been identified, and 55 bodies have been handed over to the relations. More than 200 calls have been received on BMC's helpline number 1929. The dead bodies are being identified and handed over to their relations."On Monday, Government Railway Police filed a first information report in connection with the train accident in Balasore, in which unidentified persons were singled out as responsible.
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Odisha Train Accident: 101 Unclaimed Bodies Lying at Hospital, Families in Chaos
Deexa Khanduri
Sputnik correspondent
On 2 June, as many as 278 people died and more than 900 were injured after three trains collided in Odisha's Balasore district.
Four days after one of the
deadliest train accidents in India, families of passengers are still unable to find their relations. They are now wandering from hospitals and makeshift mortuaries to the accident site in the hope of finding their families.
At the same time the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital in
Odisha's capital city Bhubaneswar said that 101 dead bodies from the accident site remain unidentified.
According to media reports, many bodies are so badly disfigured by the accident that family members cannot recognise the member. Such bodies are being viewed only via slides.
The same images can also be accessed via the Odisha government website, with a warning for users not to open the images in front of children.
The fatal accident on Friday night involved three trains – two passenger trains and one goods train. The first passenger train, the Coromandel Express, travelling from Howrah to Chennai, derailed and hit the freight train parked at the loop line near Odisha's Balasore.
The preliminary report says that the Coromandel Express was initially given the green signal to enter the Up Main Line. But the signal was later turned off. After this, the express train entered a loop line.
Minutes later, the Bengaluru-Howrah Express, which was coming on a different track, fell off because the coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed on the Bengaluru-Howrah Express track.
Although trains started to run again on Sunday night, coaches remained at the crash sites, with people and journalists still visiting the site.
Villagers and residents who live near the crash sites told the media that people from far away are visiting the accident sites, trying to get information, and speaking with native people, hopeful but angry with the administration.
Rinkesh Roy, a senior railway official, told Indian media that about 200 people are now being treated in various hospitals in Odisha.
And Vijay Amruta Kulange, Commissioner of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, told news agency ANI: "Of the 193 bodies kept in Bhubaneswar, 80 have been identified, and 55 bodies have been handed over to the relations. More than 200 calls have been received on BMC's helpline number 1929. The dead bodies are being identified and handed over to their relations."
On Monday, Government Railway Police filed a first information report in connection with the train accident in Balasore, in which unidentified persons were singled out as responsible.
