TRAIN TRAGEDY RPF, GRP initiate probe into Jalgaon accident

 

 

THE death toll in the Jalgaon train accident was revised to 12 after officials confirmed on Thursday that a head and a torso, initially thought to belong to different individuals, were from the same person. The Railway Protection Force and Government Railway Police have jointly initiated an inquiry into the Jalgaon train tragedy in which 12 people lost their lives, officials said on Thursday. A State Government official said that earlier the figure had been arrived at 13 as a woman’s body and a head were found at the scene of the accident, but a man identified the body parts as that of his mother.

 

The tragedy took place when some passengers of the 12533 Mumbai-bound Pushpak Express got off the train after an alarm chain-pulling incident and were run over by the Karnataka Express on the adjacent tracks on Wednesday evening. “The Government Medical College (in Jalgaon) has officially stated that the total number of dead persons is 12 as the torso and bodyareofthesamedeceased(female) identified by her son,” he said. The official said all bodies have been identified and they were being handed over to their respective families. A teamoffive seniorrailwayofficials has initiated an inquiry into the train accident, the Railway Board said on Thursday. Of those who lost their lives on the tracks,seven hailed from Nepal. LachchiramKhataruPasi was among those seven persons.His family not only had to bear the grief of his death but also go through the extremely traumatic process of identifying him from mutilated body parts.