1 found, kin hunt for missing five

Bhubaneswar: Laxmiswar Thakur from Janki Nagar in Madhubani district of Bihar has been showing a video clip that was shot after the triple-train accident at Bahanaga on Friday.
The video is showing injured passengers lying on the ground and one of them was drinking water from a bottle. He identified them as his six relatives who were travelling in Coromandel Express to Chennai. But after five days of frantic search in five cities and nearly a dozen hospitals, he could not find any mention of the names of these five persons, though they identified the body of one. Their names were neither reported among the dead nor among the injured.
“From the video we could see that they were seriously injured and not in a condition to go anywhere on their own. They were bleeding from their wounds and clothes torn. But how can it be possible that they just vanished? If they were dead, their bodies must be in the mortuary, but we did not find any of their photos in the album of bodies,” said Thakur.
The missing persons are Amit Mondol, Kuldeep Thakur, Rambhorosh Thakur, Ranjit Ray, Manoj Ray and Salim Rayan. “For the last five days we have been running from one hospital to another in search of them. We went to Balasore, Bhadrak, Soro, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. Also searched them in hospitals where the injured are being treated. But in vain,” said Sukal Mondol, father of one of the five missing persons.
On Wednesday, Bihar government officials said around 88 passengers from the state, who were travelling in the Coromandel Express that met with the accident on Friday, are still missing.
Among the five, Manoj Ray and his brother Ranjit Ray were working in a hotel in Chennai and were taking four others from the same village along with them to provide them jobs there. Manoj has four children and Ranjit married a year ago. “Now the burden of the whole family is on me,” said Suresh Ray, their father. “We will go to Kolkata to find them if they have been shifted there,” said Thakur.