Youth's body found six days after train crash

BHOPAL: The body of a Bhopal resident, Shravan Kushwaha, was found six days after the Indore-Patna Express accident.
Shravan and his elder brother Pramod were going to Varanasi to attend a wedding with money they had arranged after demonetisation. "We were in S-2 bogie. Each moment of the accident is seared in my mind," said 29-year-old Pramod, who works with a private firm.
When the train derailed, he was standing near the toilet."I could not move my hands for three hours. Around 6.30am I called up my wife and then started looking for Shravan but could not find him," said Pramod. That very day, his family members joined the search but found no trace of him.
"Pramod was seriously injured and we brought him to Bhopal and admitted him to a hospital," said his brother Raju Kushwaha.
The third day also went futile. "It was so hard. There were bodies all around in the cold storage and there was no trace of him. We told authorities of Shravan's tattoos," said Raju.
On November 26, the tattoos finally led them to him, but a gruesome sight awaited. "His head was missing. We identified him by the rings on his fingers and the tattoos," said Raju, adding that several families are still searching for their loved ones after the accident.
Around 146 passengers were killed and more than 200 injured, nearly half of them grievously, in the worst train accident in recent years when 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express derailed in Pukhrayan near Kanpur in the wee hours of November 20. S1 and S2 coaches telescoped into each other, leading to horrific casualties.