Kamayani Express derailed: 12 bodies found half a km away from accident site

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Railway ministry sources said apart from the 12 bodies recovered from the coaches, there are around 12 more bodies found half a kilometer away from where the trains derailed, in the fields nearby and elsewhere. Efforts are on to ascertain if they were also passengers or were locals who fell prey to the flash floods. Railways along with state authorities will determine the identities of these bodies. If it is found that they were train passengers, their families will receive the compensation announced by Prabhu earlier in the day.

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The next of kin of the dead will receive Rs 2 lakh while the seriously injured will get Rs 50,000 and those whith simple injuries will get Rs 25,000 each as compensation.

Earlier, Prabhu made a statement in both Houses of Parliament before setting out for the accident site. “Landed in Bhopal by Air India. Spoke to CM MP stuck at spot due to bad weather. Our GoMP chopper can’t take off. We are doing all possible efforts,” Prabhu tweeted from Bhopal in the afternoon.

Such an uncommon occurrence of tracks getting washed out by flash flood has taken the rail administration by surprise. An in-house probe has been ordered to see find out the detailed technical reasons. As per preliminary findings by the ministry, the section where the derailment occurred did not have a history of such floods affecting train traffic. As a result, the area was not in the danger zone on railway’s map of operations.

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