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Odisha train accident: 40 Coromandel Express passengers may have died of electrocution
Updated On: 06 June, 2023 04:06 PM IST | Bhubaneswar | mid-day online correspondent
An FIR registered at the Government Railway Police station at Balasore indicated that live overhead wires which snapped when the Odisha train accident occurred, entangled with a few coaches, electrocuting the passengers trapped in them

Anil Marandi sobs while he searches for his three family members at the Fakir Mohan Medical College and Hospital after the carriage wreckage of a three-train collision near Balasore in India's eastern state of Odisha, on June 5, 2023. Pic/AFP
The Government Railway Police on Tuesday said that around 40 bodies recovered from the Coromandel Express involved in the Odisha train accident had no visible injury marks and are believed to have died of electrocution, the PTI reported.
According to PTI, an FIR registered at the Government Railway Police station at Balasore indicated that live overhead wires which snapped when the accident occurred, entangled with a few coaches, electrocuting the passengers trapped in them.

