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Train
mishap toll rises to 98, may go further up
Saturday, May 29, 2010 12:50:57 PM,
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Jhargram
(WB): The toll in the Mumbai-bound express train
derailment by Maoists rose to 98 on Saturday morning as more bodies
were pulled out from the wreckage of the mangled coaches with
rescuers working throughout the night.
South East Railway officials put the number of injured at 250. Five
of the seriously injured have been taken to Kolkata for treatment.
“Ninety-eight bodies have so far been taken out from the mangled
coaches. Ninety-six bodies have been kept at the Midnapore Hospital
and two at the Kharagpur Railway Hospital,” SP, West Midnapore,
Manoj Kumar Verma told PTI.
Only 25 bodies have been identified so far and postmortem of 60
bodies has been done.
Railway officials said the toll could rise as the worst-affected S-5
and S-6 coaches were yet to be cut open.
Bodies could be inside the two mangled coaches as also under the
engine of four wagons of the goods train, the officials said.
Maoists derailed the Howrah-Kurla Lomanya Tilak Jnaneswari Super
Deluxe Express on Friday when the train was running between
Khemasoli and Sardiya stations.
Verma said the bodies are being preserved in such a manner that
a DNA test can be conducted on them in case of need.
“Two temporary camps have been set up at the Midnapore Hospital
where relatives of the dead and injured can get information. Besides
displaying the photographs of the dead at the hospital, officials
have uploaded them on government websites for the convenience of the
affected families,” Verma said.
The Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, where all the bodies
have been kept, is facing a space crunch as its morgue is not
equipped to handle such a large number of cadavers.
A garage of the hospital has been turned into a makeshift morgue
with the bodies being kept on slabs of ice.
“The summer heat, however, is proving to be a problem,” hospital
officials told PTI.
The hospital authorities have placed a large LCD screen where the
images of the bodies were being displayed to help relatives identify
them.
Among the injured, there were children in the age group of three to
four years who were separated from their parents in the accident. A
PTI correspondent, who visited the hospital, saw that they all bore
“unidentified” tags.
There is confusion on the exact cause of the train derailment in the
Maoist stronghold with Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday
blaming it on a “bomb blast” at the rail track while top brass of
the West Bengal Police said it was an act of sabotage since fish
plates were found removed.
DGP Bhupinder Singh said pendral clips which are used to hold
sections of tracks together were found missing over a 50-metre
stretch at the accident spot. Some passengers also said they heard
no blast. “It is a clear case of sabotage. The Maoists have done
it,” Singh said.
Union Home Minister P. Chidamabaram had said that the disaster
appeared to be an act of sabotage, but it was not yet clear whether
explosives were used in the blast.
Ms. Banerjee also said that TNT explosives and gelatine sticks were
also found at the accident site.
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