29 of the 81 bodies of the victims of the Odisha train accident have been found

According to the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), 29 of the 81 remains of those who died in the June 2 railway disaster in Balasore, Odisha, and were housed at the AIIMS Bhubaneswar hospital have been identified. Sulochona Das, mayor of the BMC, stated that the process of turning over the corpses had begun.

“Using DNA research, 29 of the 81 corpses kept at AIIMS Bhubaneswar have been identified. The process of giving the remains to their relatives has begun, said Das. The mayor said that since there were several claims for a single corpse, officials from Indian Railways and AIIMS Bhubaneswar chose to do DNA sample analysis.

Das said that the state administration had made plans to return all of the dead to their homes. Five relatives have already arrived at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, according to the 29 identified corpses, she added. Only one of the 29 corpses belonged to an Odisha family; the others were mostly from West Bengal and Bihar.

A central laboratory in Delhi provided the DNA result after around 20 days, according to an official, who also noted that up to 88 DNA samples were submitted for the identification of the 81 remains. In the collision involving the Shalimar-bound Coromandel Express destined for Chennai, the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, and a stalled freight train, 293 people were murdered; 287 of them passed away at the scene, while six more died from their injuries in hospitals.

On June 2 in the evening, the incident happened close to Bahanaga Bazar station in the Balasore district. While the majority of the remains were sent to their relatives, 81 were preserved in four different containers that were purchased from Paradip Port since it was impossible to identify them owing to many claims. According to an official, the remains were held in the containers at minus 17 degrees C.