Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Wednesday informed that the kin of the deceased in Odisha’s train accident have to visit AIIMS-Bhubaneswar to identify the bodies.
They need not go to any other hospital in the city for the purpose of identification, it added.
While revising the death toll in one of the country’s deadliest train mishaps, involving Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express, Bengaluru-Howrah super fast and a goods train, to 288, Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena had informed that 83 bodies are yet to be identified.
All the unidentified bodies have been securely placed in containers on the premises of the premier health institute in the city and are accessible to the relatives and friends for identification. A help desk has also been set up at the hospital to assist the relatives of the deceased.
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Notably, AIIMS-Bhubaneswar received 39 more bodies from different hospitals and put them in refrigerated containers around 3.50 am. It has received 162 dead bodies in total and is the only hospital where all bodies are preserved.
The state forensic laboratory is also conducting DNA tests on those claiming to identify the severely mutilated bodies.
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