14 victims of TN Express blaze identified; Death toll at 28

A day after a sleeper class

coach of Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express was gutted in fire

near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, the Government Railway Police

(GRP) here has pegged the death toll at 28 and number of

injured at 31 while identifying fourteen of the charred

victims."Of 28 deaths, so far 14 bodies have been identified

and 12 of them, including four women and two children, have

been handed over to their relatives, while fourteen bodies

have been preserved for identification at Nellore government

hospital," a Government Railway Police (GRP) release said

today.According to the release, 31 passengers were injured

in the mystery fire that broke out in S-11 bogie of the

ill-fated train near Nellore in the wee hours yesterday and

were admitted to different hospitals there.Out of 31 injured passengers, 12 belonged to Andhra

Pradesh, seven to Tamil Nadu, three were from Punjab/Haryana,

four from Uttar Pradesh, while three hailed from Madhya

Pradesh and one each from Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir, the

release said.