All 8 passengers of the Bokaro Express who were run over by a Vijayawada passenger train at Gotlam village near Vizianagaram have been identified.
The deceased have been identified as Shweta Singh (33), Samhita Kumari (10), Shourya Kumar (2), T Alex (27), Tara Devi (34), Kartika Sahu (70), Lokender Kumar (28) and Adi Raju (60).
While Lokender Kumar was a solder in the army, Samhita and Shourya were the children of Shweta Kumar. They hailed from Aurangabad in Bihar.
The tragic accident occurred when passengers travelling in the Bokaro-bound Alapphuzha-Dhanbad Express, stationed at Gajularega, detrained in panic from the stationary train and jumped on to another track following rumours that smoke was coming out from the S1 and S2 bogies.
However, they were hit by the speeding Rayagada-Vijayawada passenger train which came hurtling down the adjacent track.
The Alappuzha-Dhanbad train, also known as Bokaro Express, was on its way from Alappuzha in Kerala to Dhanbad in Jharkhand, via Bokaro Steel City. (INN)