Nine of the 28 unclaimed bodies killed in the deadly train crash in odisha were cremated on Tuesday. The cremation took place at the Bharatpur Crematorium under the auspices of the bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation. odisha train accident filled with deep sadness. 297 lives were lost in this incident. After exhuming the dead bodies, almost all their family members took them to their native villages and performed the last rites. But four months have passed since the accident.. still, no one has claimed some of the dead bodies. Since then, 28 dead bodies have been kept at AIIMS in Bhubaneswar. 9 dead bodies were cremated on tuesday in the presence of officials. bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made all arrangements to conduct these cremations with dignity. They were cremated as per rituals in Bharatpur crematorium.
The bodies were brought from AIIMS under the supervision of a senior BMC officer and cremation started at 5 pm. A 12-member team of Pardeep Seva Trust conducted the cremation of the bodies as per norms. A member of the trust placed the dead bodies on a pyre and cremated them. However the process was delayed as the bodies were frozen and took longer than usual.
Cremation of each body took at least four hours. As the dead bodies were preserved in minus temperature, the dead bodies turned into slabs of ice. Good quality wood and ghee were arranged to cremate the dead bodies with respect. After cremation, the remains are collected for immersion in a river or sea. On june 2 this year at around 7 pm, the Coromandel Express collided with a stationary goods train near Bahanaga Bazar station in odisha and the bogies derailed. Some bogies of the Coromandel Express collided with the last few bogies of the Bengaluru-Howrah Express, which was traveling at the same time. A total of 297 people died in this accident. However, AIIMS bhubaneswar received 162 dead bodies. Out of them, 81 dead bodies were handed over to the family members of the deceased in the first phase. After dna tests, another 53 bodies were handed over to the family members. Another 28 bodies remain unclaimed. Since then they have been stored in five deep freezer containers collected from the Paradip Port Trust.
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