BHUBANESWAR, India: Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday (Jun 5) to identify and collect bodies of relatives,
filled a hospital in Bhubaneswar city on Monday to identify and collect bodies of relatives, as railway officials recommended the country’s premier criminal investigating agency to probe the crash that killed 275 people.
Outside the hospital, two large screens cycled through photos of the victims, their faces so bloodied and charred that they were hardly recognisable. Many of them said they had spent days on desperate journeys from neighboring states, travelling in multiple trains, buses or rented cars to identify and claim bodies, a process that stretched into a third day due to the gruesome nature of the injuries.
“My wife and daughter can’t stop crying at home. They are asking me to bring the body back quickly," he said, wiping tears from his eyes with a red scarf he had tied around his head.
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