Bhubaneswar : The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation(BMC) on Wednesday cremated 28 unclaimed bodies of people killed in the triple train accident that took place in Odisha’s Balasore district early June.
The cremations began Tuesday evening and were completed by 8 am on Wednesday. The town Mayor Sulochana Das said that bodies that were stored for more than four months in containers now had frozen to ice. Several people, including women volunteers, actively participated in the funeral, she said.
The CBI , investigating the accident, had recently urged the district administration to cremate the bodies and asked BMC to prepare a standard operating procedure for cremation and also Bhubaneswar AIIMS where the bodies were preserved.
On June 2, the Coromandel Express, the Bengaluru Howrah Super Fast Express and a goods train crashed into one another in what turned out to be the deadliest accident in the history of Indian Railways.
