Even after three months of the horrific train accident in Bhanaga of Baleswar district in which as many as 296 persons were killed, 28 bodies are yet to be identified..
All 28 bodies have been preserved at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar. As per the hospital authorities, there were a total of 81 bodies and 110 claimants. 53 bodies were subsequently handed over after the necessary matching of the DNA samples.
It is surprising that no person has turned up at the AIIMS to claim the bodies in the last 10 days.
“We have handed over bodies based on genetic tests and DNA test reports. At present, we have 28 bodies for which we have no claimants,” said AIIMS Bhubaneswar Superintendent Dilip Parida.
Parida further said that they are awaiting instructions from the Railway Ministry and the Odisha Government in this connection. CBI is the custodian of the bodies as it is investigating the case. We have only preserved the bodies here, he said.
All the bodies are preserved in deep freezer and there is no problem as the decomposition process is usually stalled. We had conducted DNA sampling of 110 bodies after the Bahanaga train tragedy,” Parida added.