Five days after a deadly three-train crash killed 275 individuals in India, close to 100 bodies remain unclaimed.

The accident on Friday night in the territory of Odisha involved two traveler trains and a stationary goods train.

More than 1,000 injured were taken to clinics for treatment. Numerous families say they are as yet searching for friends and family.

The deadly crash is India's most awful rail mishap this century.

The accident saw a traveler train crash after wrongly going into a circle track by the side of the main line and colliding with a stationary goods train that was parked there. Its wrecked carriages then struck the back mentors of a subsequent traveler train heading down the opposite direction.

In excess of 3,000 travelers are remembered to have been going on the two trains, with reports saying both were pressed.

Desperate relatives of travelers from Odisha and different states have been swarming clinics, looking for data about their friends and family. Be that as it may, at times, distinguishing the body is ending up a genuine test.

At the Balasore District Hospital in Odisha, Muhammad Nizamuddin couldn't claim his grandsons' bodies.

Tafsir Ansari, 16, and his brother, Tausif, 13, were traveling by the Coromandel Express with their father when it met with an accident.

While the father is still missing, the photographs of the teenagers, along with those of several other victims, were projected onto a wall in the hospital - Tafsir tagged number 20 and Tausif 169 - for their family members to identify them.

The faces of the boys were disfigured due to injuries, but their grandfather says he recognized them.

So he decided to make his way to the state capital, Bhubaneshwar - where nearly 100 unclaimed bodies have been kept in four hospitals - but an official there stopped him.

The official informed him that Tafsir's body had already been claimed by another family but is yet to be handed over to them.

"How is this possible? Do you mean that I won't recognize my grandchildren," a distraught Mr. Nizamuddin told the BBC.

He has now been asked to get in touch with civic officials in Bhubaneshwar who have been tasked with checking claims, and identification documents, and taking measures to see that the body goes to the right family.

"If you go through the photo database, you'll see many of the bodies are damaged beyond recognition. They are also now decomposing," Bhubaneshwar Municipal Corporation Commissioner Vijay Amruta Kulange told the BBC.

In cases where there were more than one family had claimed a body, DNA testing was being done to help families with identification, he said, adding that "unidentified bodies would be kept at the hospital morgue for the next 10 days", and that "the government would not hurry to cremate or bury" them.

At the weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash scene and vowed that anyone found guilty would be "punished stringently".

Rescue work was completed on Saturday and the tracks had been cleared of wreckage. Train traffic has already been restored on one of the lines and officials said the remaining lines would also be restored and reopened by Wednesday.

India has one of the largest train networks in the world. It runs more than 12,000 passenger trains daily, which are used by several billion passengers to travel across the country annually - but a lot of the railway infrastructure needs improving.

Trains are generally packed at this time of year, with a growing number of people traveling during school holidays.

The country's worst train disaster was in 1981, when an overcrowded passenger train was blown off the tracks and into a river during a cyclone in Bihar state, killing about 800 people.

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