Not 288 but 275 people have died in the Bahnaga train accident in Balasore district. The railway official said that some bodies were “counted twice”. At the same time, the bodies of 187 people killed in the train accident have not been identified yet.
The Odisha government has urged various states to identify and claim the bodies of those killed in the Balasore train accident.
According to the government, hundreds of bodies are yet to be claimed in various mortuaries. The bodies are rapidly decomposing, making identification difficult.
Let us tell you that many of the passengers killed in the train accident were migrant laborers. In such a situation, it is taking time for the relatives of the deceased to come to Odisha from other states. Seeing the picture, people are slowly reaching and recognizing their relatives.
The Odisha government has uploaded photographs of the dead on three websites to facilitate people from outside to identify the dead. The government issued a press release saying that relatives can identify the dead bodies by looking at the pictures of the dead on the website.