BHUBANESWAR: A youth from West Bengal, who was seriously injured in the Bahanaga Bazar triple-train crash on June 2, succumbed to his injuries on Friday while undergoing treatment at the SCB medical college and hospital (MCH) at Cuttack.
With this, the total death toll in the train accident increased to 296.
The deceased was SK Khokan, 32, son of SK Haran Rashid, a native of Bhatar in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district. He was seriously injured in the train accident. He was admitted to the SCB MCH on June 3, said Abinash Rout, administrative officer of the SCB MCH.
Khokan was diagnosed with extra dural haemorrhage and pneumo-encephalocele. He had severe injury in his brain due to the train accident. He was travelling by Coromandel Express on the fateful day. He died at 7.20am on Friday, after two months of treatment, said Rout.
So far, six injured accident victims, who were undergoing treatment at SCB MCH, died during treatment. They were seriously injured in the train accident.
More than 1000 passengers were injured in the triple-train accident on June 2 evening involving the superfast Coromandel Express ramming into a stationary goods train and two of its dismembered bogies hitting the two tail coaches of the Bengaluru-Howrah Express.
Quick action by locals, swift reaction by local administration and prompt planning by the state government and timely intervention of railways helped save many lives. Hundreds of injured had received first aid before being shifted to different hospitals.
Out of 296 deaths, 29 bodies of the train accident victims are yet to be identified. AIIMS Bhubaneswar has preserved all these bodies in its morgue and containers brought from Paradip Port. DNA samples of these bodies and their family members have been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory at New Delhi.
“If the DNA samples of claimants will not match with the DNA of the deceased, it will remain unclaimed. A decision regarding disposal of the body will be taken soon after the DNA cross matching reports come,” said official sources.
