Waiting for Loved Ones’ Bodies in India Train Crash

The families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades have gathered at a hospital in Bhubaneswar to identify and collect the bodies of their loved ones. Railway officials have recommended that the country’s premier criminal investigating agency probe the crash, which killed 275 people. Survivors being treated in the hospital have said they are still trying to make sense of the disaster. Outside the hospital, two large screens cycled through photos of the victims, many of which were hardly recognisable due to the extent of their injuries. So far, only 45 bodies have been identified and 33 have been handed over to relatives. Investigators believe that a signalling failure may have caused the three-train crash, which is one of the worst rail disasters in the country’s history.