{"id":55737,"date":"2023-06-04T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/im-tired-looking-at-dead-bodies-indians-look-for-family-at-crash-site"},"modified":"2023-06-04T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:45:10","slug":"i-feel-so-helpless-indians-search-for-missing-family-at-train-crash-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55737","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel so helpless\u2019: Indians search for missing family at train crash site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond recognition<\/p>\n<p>As the Coromandel Express train left Shalimar station at 3.20pm on Friday, its carriages were packed to the rafters with migrant labourers, daily wage workers, students and commuters, many seeking opportunity hundreds of miles away in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the train\u2019s final destination.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Chandan Roy, 38, a mason, who was heading south for employment. Yet he would never make it. Instead, on Sunday morning, his father-in-law, Santosh Roy, 60, was among those desperately searching for his body among piles of the dead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/im-tired-looking-at-dead-bodies-indians-look-for-family-at-crash-site\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond recognitionAs the Coromandel Express train left Shalimar station at 3.20pm on Friday, its carriages were packed to the rafters with migrant la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,766,61,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rail-transport","category-south-and-central-asia","category-train-crashes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55737\/revisions\/55738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}