With bodies of the Samruddhi Marg bus accident victims charred beyond recognition, the police will now have to rely on DNA sample comparison to establish the identities of the deceased. The Vidarbha express, a sleeper luxury private bus, left Nagpur at around 5 pm on Friday and met with an accident at 1.32 am on Saturday, when it collided with a pole and subsequently caught fire.

Rescue workers have 25 dead bodies from the wreckage and sent them to the district hospital in Buldhana. The authorities are still in the process of identifying the deceased, 14 of whom hailed from Wardha. Ramesh Kolape, Tehsildar from Wardha who is in Buldhana to coordinate with families of the deceased, said, “The bodies are completely charred, and we have still not been able to identify 
the deceased.”