Benapole Express fire : Three victims identified through DNA tests

Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities will hand over the bodies to their families on Thursday.

The bodies of three people, who were missing after the Benapole Express train fire at Gopibagh in the capital on January 5, have been identified through DNA tests.

The victims were identified as Alina Yasmin, 40, hailed from Nurpur village in Rajbari town, Abu Talha, 28, a third-year student at Bangladesh Army Science and Technology University in Syedpur, and Chandrima Chowdhury Soumi, 28, a pharmacy student at a private university in Dhaka.

Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities will hand over the bodies to their families on Thursday.

Alina Yasmin's uncle Nazrul Islam, Abu Talha's father Abdul Haque, and Chandrima Chowdhury Soumi's uncle Atanu have confirmed identities on Thursday morning.

Abu Talha's father Abdul Haque said that DMCH authorities informed him about the identification of Abu Talha's body. After some legal complications, the authorities will hand over the body to them.

On the night of January 5, miscreants set fire to the Benapole Express train in Gopibagh, only two days before 12th national parliamentary election.

After the incident, four charred bodies were recovered from the different compartments of the train and several injured were rescued.