As scores of bodies remain unidentified after India's deadly train crash, authorities are using DNA testing to help families bury their loved ones
in two decades were taken, Mohammed Imam Ul Haq found the body of one nephew on Tuesday, but the remains of what he thinks was a second nephew were also claimed by another family.
Identifying victims has been hard as well as traumatic, as the faces of many were disfigured and their bodies mutilated by the violence of the high speed crash. As of late Tuesday, officials counted nearly a hundred unclaimed bodies lying in hospitals and mortuaries across Odisha, meaning many more families were facing a similar plight.
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