Bhagalpur train accident toll up to 35

BHAGALPUR: The number of dead in the train disaster rose to 35 on Sunday with two more persons succumbing to their injuries in hospital.

The two persons are Uttam Majumdar and Bhagwan Prasad, Railway officials informed, adding that 26 bodies had been identified.

The tracks have been cleared of debris and the first train to pass through Bhagalpur after restoration of tracks was the Malda-bound Farakka Express and the second train to cross the incident site was Delhi-bound Brahmaputra Mail at about 9 am on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Commissioner of Railway Safety, Eastern Circle R P Agarwal, asked to hold an inquiry into the mishap, has reached here, railway sources said adding Agrawal would hold the statutory probe into the accident when a 140-year-old overbridge, being dismantled by the Railways, collapsed on the Howrah-Jamalpur Express on Saturday.

Officials further said that some of the injured, requiring specialised orthopaedic treatment, would be shifted to Howrah Railway Orthopaedic Hospital in Kolkata at the cost of the Railways.