Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond recognition
s the Coromandel Express train left Shalimar station at 3.20pm on Friday, its carriages were packed to the rafters with migrant labourers, daily wage workers, students and commuters, many seeking opportunity hundreds of miles away in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the train’s final destination.
According to the railways minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, it was a signalling error that sent the Coromandel Express down the wrong tracks on Friday night, causing it to plough into a stationary freight train at such speed that several carriages were thrown into the air. The oncoming Howrah Superfast Express was also hit and derailed.By Sunday, the death toll from the devastating three-way collision stood at 275, with more than 1,000 injured, making it India’s worst train disaster in two decades.
But after 30 hours of desperately putting a photo of his son-in-law in the faces of officials and searching through the bodies piled up in hospitals and in the school hall, he had been unable to locate Chandan.
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