BALASORE, India: Indian authorities made fervent appeals to families on Tuesday (Jun 6) to help identify over 100 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries
The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction near the district of Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha.
Till Monday evening around 100 bodies were yet to be identified, a senior state health department official told Reuters. "Unless they are identified, a post mortem cannot be done," Mohapatra said, explaining that under Odisha state regulations no autopsy can be conducted on an unclaimed body until 96 hours has passed.
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.
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