Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued a SOP on Sunday regarding the disposal of the 28 unidentified bodies from the three-train accident in June this year at Bahanaga in Odisha’s Balasore district in a scientific manner.
BMC Mayor Sulochona Das on Sunday said that the civic body is prepared to dispose of the unclaimed bodies and they have informed their decision to the authorities of the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. “However, we have to wait for a day or two to dispose of the bodies as the AIIMS authorities will hand them over to us in the presence of a CBI representative.”
It is worth mentioning here that the CBI is currently probing the three-train accident at Bahanaga.
She said that the unclaimed bodies would be cremated at Satyanagar and Bharatpur crematoriums. The BMC has decided to provide two to three dead body carriers for the smooth transportation of bodies from AIIMS to the cremation ground. The entire process from receiving the bodies to cremation will be videographed, the BMC SOP read.
All 28 bodies are preserved in special containers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar. According to the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, authorities, 81 bodies were stored in the special containers and there were 110 claimants for them. As of date, 53 bodies have been handed over to the relatives of the deceased after matching their DNA samples. However, there were no claimants for 28 bodies.
The train accident on June 2 claimed 290 lives.
