Grim Quest To Find Loved Ones From Odisha Train Accident

Odisha Train Accident: Some train carriages were flipped over, others were torn open with the force of the impact.

At a makeshift morgue in a school, a couple scanned photos of disfigured corpses before leaning in for a closer look at one they think is their 22-year-old son.

A pendant around his wounded neck provided the terrible confirmation.

The mother held back tears and leaned gently on her husband's shoulder for a few seconds, before looking away from the laptop of an official trying to identify the dead after India's worst train disaster in decades.

People have come to the Bahanaga High School, less than a kilometre from the crash site near Balasore, in Odisha, since Friday's horrific three-train collision.