Long, Difficult Process Of Identifying The Dead Prolongs Grief & Horror For Odisha Train-Crash Families
A month after a three-train wreck in Balasore, Odisha, killed over 290 people on 2 June, 52 bodies are yet to be identified. As mostly low-income families wait in Bhubaneswar for the result of DNA testing, they sift between two sets of images—those of the mangled faces and bodies they have seen and the smiling ones saved on their phones, some sent minutes before the accident. While their poverty demands they return to work, desperate calls from home ask whether they will soon have the solace of the last rites.
#odisha #balasore #OdishaTrainAccident #IndianRailways #MigrantLabourers #MigrantWorkers #poverty #india
