New Delhi: Even after all the unidentified bodies of the Samjhauta Express blasts were buried in a graveyard near Panipat, Pakistani relatives of some of the missing passengers continue to pour in at Panipat in search of their near and dear ones a week after two blasts on the Atari-bound 'friendship train" killed 68 lives and injured a dozen others.
Most of the 49 dead people were identified to be Pakistani nationals. Nineteen other unidentified bodies were buried in a graveyard in Mehrana village, 5 km from Panipat, on Saturday.
However, the Panipat district administration maintains that the bodies could be exhumed later if some relatives claimed them.
Three persons, who claimed they could not cross over to India earlier because they had not got visas in time, crossed the border on Sunday.
Mubashar Hasan, from Pakistan's Sargoda district, was in tears on Sunday on finding out that all the unclaimed bodies had been buried. He had arrived in Panipat in search of his brother Mohammed Irfan. "I feel guilty that I could not reach in time," Hasan said.
Two other Pakistanis — Mohammed Nadeem and Mohammed Ali — too reached here after the burials.
"We could not get visas in time," Nadeem said. With the district administration shifting its temporary camp office from the Panipat Civil Hospital, voluntary organisations are receiving and helping the Pakistanis.
Comments
0 comment