Over 100 bodies remain unclaimed after Indian rail disaster

A man enters a deep freezer truck filled with dead bodies to try and identify a family member killed after a multiple train collision in Balasore, at a hospital in Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, India, June 6, 2023. - REUTERSPIX: Indian authorities made fervent appeals to families on Tuesday to help identify over 100 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after 275 people were killed in the country’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades.

Bijay Kumar Mohapatra, health director of Odisha, said authorities were trying to source iced containers to help preserve the bodies. A detailed list was made of distinguishing features for each body, but relatives could first view photographs, however gruesome, to identify missing loved ones, a senior police official told Reuters.

The 20-year-old had travelled in the Coromandel Express with three others from their village but while the other three returned home Gopal has not. A team from the federal Central Bureau of Investigation reached the site on Tuesday to start a probe into the cause of the disaster while a separate inquiry by railway’s safety commission started on Monday.

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