The biggest challenge, said officials has been the identification of the bodies following the deadly train collision that claimed the lives of nearly 300 people, injuring hundreds others.
BAHANAGA - At a makeshift morgue in an Indian school, a couple scanned photos of disfigured corpses before leaning in for a closer look at one they think is their 22-year-old son.The mother held back tears and leaned gently on her husband's shoulder for a few seconds, before looking away from the laptop of an official trying to identify the dead after India's worst train disaster in decades.
"The biggest challenge is the identification," Agarwal said, sitting in the school headmaster's office. "We received 179 bodies here, but only 45 of them could be identified," said Ranajit Nayak, the police officer in charge of releasing the bodies.
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