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Kolkata: Even after a month after the derailment of the Jnaneswari Express between the Sardiha and Khemasuli stations in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district claimed 150 lives, unidentified bodies continue to add to the ‘missing passengers' list. The 47 unidentified bodies were so badly deformed that the State government had announced that the bodies would be handed over to relatives only after they were genetically matched. Those who laid claim to the bodies were asked to leave their blood samples with the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) to facilitate DNA matching of the bodies and blood samples . The genetic matching procedure, however, seems to have hit a roadblock as two successive rounds failed to establish the identity of the bodies. “The bodies have become highly contaminated and samples taken from them are not serving the purpose properly. We are facing a problem in getting the task completed as we had to repeat the task thrice. The reports of the third sample testing are awaited now,” C.N. Bhattacharya, Director of CFSL, told The Hindu on Monday. Mr. Bhattacharya hoped that the reports of the third round of testing will be out within the next three to four days. Meanwhile, the relatives of the “missing passengers” are rapidly losing patience over the entire procedure for being asked to give blood samples at the CFSL repeatedly, without positive results yet. Moreover, there are 55 claimants for the 47 unidentified bodies and body parts making the situation more complicated. A Southern Eastern Railway (SER) spokesperson said that although many of the relatives daily visit the SER office, that the railway could pay off the compensation and ex gratia amount only after receiving an official death certificate from the State Government. The State government had earlier stated that it will seek permission from the court to cremate the bodies after informing the relatives owing to the difficulty of continuing to store the decomposed bodies.
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