Man bids farewell to dead daughter, wife from stretcher 4 members of a family missing

The walled city of Bhopal witnessed poignant scenes on Monday in which a survivor of Sunday’s train tragedy in Kanpur was seen joining the funeral procession of his wife and daughter, both killed in the mishap, in a stretcher, and a mother bidding farewell to her 50-year-old-son who did not forget to enquire, like any other day, if she had her dinner before going to sleep in his coach in the ill-fated Indore-Patna Express.

A pall of gloom descended on Bhopal as bodies of passengers recovered from the wreckage of the train, that met with a deadly accident in Kanpur rural area in the wee hours of Sunday, reached their homes for their last rites.

The heartrending sight of Satyendra Singh, 56, injured in the mishap, putting vermilion on the forehead of his wife Geeta, 50, for the last time and garlanding her and his daughter Ragini, 28, who were both killed in the accident, and later joining their funeral procession on Monday in a stretcher, moved one and all.

An ashen-faced Satyendra lit their funeral pyre from the stretcher.

Satyendra was travelling in the train along with his family to attend the marriage function of one of his relatives in Kanpur.

In another such moving sight, wailing mother of 46year-old Rajsh Singh, died in the train accident, was seen recounting how his son rang her up in the middle Bhopal: Four members of an Indore-based family, who were travelling in the ill-fated Indore-Patna Express, were missing after the derailment, an officer of Madhya Pradesh government said on Monday. Sanjay Srivastav along with his wife Pratima, son Abhey and daughters Suhani and Surabhi, hailing from Billaud on the outskirt of Indore city, boarded the train on November 19, SDM Narendra Pandey, who is currently camping at the accident site, said.

of the night on Saturday to inquire, like other days, if she had her dinner before retiring to sleep.

Rajesh, who was travelling in the train to attend the funeral rites of a relative, never imagined that it would be his last journey.