Hirakhand Express mishap toll rises to 40

January 24, 2017 21:13

The toll in the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express derailment rose to 40 with the recovery of another body from the accident site today.

"The 40th death is now officially confirmed after post mortem," an East Coast Railway statement said adding the body was recovered from the accident site at Kuneru in Andhra Pradesh.

The body had in fact got buried in the ground and was spotted when the site was being cleared.

The Railways confirmed the death only after the post-mortem report was made available, it said.

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