Toll In UP Accident 69, 23 Yet To Be Identified

The object of one of India's worst train disaster rose to 69 during search operations ended Monday in Uttar Pradesh, where 14 coaches of Howrah-scale Mail speed jumped the rails the day before. The deceased, 23 were also identified.

Cause of the accident which also left 249 injured, is still unknown. Two Swedish nationals among the dead.

"Bodies of 46 victims identified and arrangements are being made to put them in individual coffins, so that they can be easily transported to their homes," Special Director Directorate of Police Brij Lal said here.

"The other 23, we have made every effort to identify them, but the task seems difficult, because most of them were passengers in a general compartment, not even the railroad has no documents," he said.

He expressed the hope that their families had to seek them out even after knowing about the accident near the station Malwan Fatehpur district, about 140 km from here, at 24:20 on Sunday.

Six special team of doctors worked to perform the autopsy of each agency. "Post-mortem can not be avoided, and it is mandatory under the law," said Brij Lal.

Of the 249 injured, 63 were discharged after primary treatment, the other shows signs of recovery in various hospitals in Fatehpur, Kanpur, Allahabad and Lucknow, he said.

According to Chief Medical Officer of Fatehpur K.N. Joshi, passenger injuries ranging from deep gashes and amputations, fractures.

It took a good 24 hours in a joint operation in the military and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to release the bodies in piles of twisted metal and plastic.

Death in two Swedish citizens, Victor, and Wick, who was traveling in second class reserved for the bus, which was completely crushed in an accident. Oscar and his friend at this point, but survived multiple injuries in hospital in Kanpur.

After a long search for the night, rescue teams and sniffer dogs trained to use extruded guides on each body, which may still be trapped under piles of twisted metal.

"It finally helped to capture at least a dozen more bodies were not discovered something else," additional district magistrate Anil Kumar Pathak Fatehpur told IANS over the phone at the accident site.

Rescue operation was completed around 1:00 p.m. Monday after the railway authorities to recognize the efforts to restore the road busy with traffic was thrown completely off course. At least a dozen trains had to be canceled, as were about two dozen.

Some of the survivors were wailing and moaning all night, and even in an accident Monday morning to search for his relatives, who were untraceable.

"I went to the hospital and walked around all night looking for my brothers," the 14-year-old to cry Shahani told reporters at a disaster that was his mother and father dead leg amputated.

Minutes later, when he discovered that one of the bodies of military personnel were drawn to his brother, he went into uncontrollable hysteria began to cry, "What do I do now, where I go?"

Although shocked, but managed to lower the injured passengers to the coaches, were local villagers, the first to rush to help victims. Many passengers complained that the tax was quite late and they had to fend for themselves for at least two hours.

Although the 200 policemen who ran to carry around and went to Fatehpur damaged cars waiting for hospital treatment in Kanpur and Fatehpur, intensified after the rescue was 180-strong contingent of Indian Army to the site. Rescuers worked through the night to pull the dead and seriously injured by a rush of specialized treatment.

Military helicopters carried more seriously injured to hospital in Lucknow and Allahabad.

The cause of the accident was not clear. But a senior railway official confirmed that the train was driving 108 km per hour when the driver applied emergency brakes only Malwan station, bringing the derailment.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who currently holds the portfolio of the railroad, which has expressed grief and shock of the disaster. Uttar Pradesh and the state quickly announced compensation for the dead and injured.

The accident is described as the year's worst rail tragedy in the Indian railway system, regarded as one of the largest in the world, carrying about 14 million passengers per day.