Two men from a village in South 24-Parganas are missing since the Coromandel train crash on June 2.
Railway officials said 28 bodies are lying in the morgue of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, as their identities are yet to be confirmed.
Family members of the two missing persons from Bengal said they have not got any compensation because it is yet to be established that the men were passengers of the train.
The two from Madhusudanpur 64 Bari, Ramtanunagar village in Kakdwip block, were on their way to Chennai to work at construction sites.
The Coromandel Express they were travelling in was involved in the triple train crash near Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha’s Balasore, which left 296 dead and over 1,000 injured.
Four men from the village were on the train and were missing but two of them could be identified through DNA matching.
Jamaluddin Seikh and Sajjat Seikh, however, are still missing, said their family members on Wednesday.
Jamaluddin does not have any children or near blood relatives who could give samples for DNA matching.
“Immediately after the accident, I went to Odisha and checked every hospital but could not find him,” said Azizul Rehman Laskar, Jamaluddin’s brother-in-law. “I visited police stations and government offices but without any result,” he said.
Laskar said a few days back, the Odisha government authorities asked him to get a comb or any other personal belonging of Jamaluddin from which traces of his DNA could be collected for possible matching. His belongings that he was carrying on the train are missing.
“When I called them again saying I would come with a comb that he used at home, the authorities said they were only collecting blood samples for the DNA match,” said Laskar.
In the case of Sajjat, the other missing Coromandel Express passenger from the village, two members of his family have given DNA samples.
On June 6, days after the accident, Sajjat’s brother Hanif Seikh had gone to Bhubaneswar and given his blood sample.
“But when we called them several times, the authorities said no proper DNA matching could be done. They wanted a second family member to give a sample,” said Jamal Seikh, another brother of Sajjat.
On August 3, Sajjat’s daughter Sajina Khatun went to Bhubaneswar and gave her blood sample at AIIMS.
“Since then, more than a month has passed, but there is no trace of my brother,” said Jamal.
Jamal’s nephew, Moyzuddin Seikh, was also on the train. He died and his body was handed over to the family. They received compensation worth Rs 17 lakh from the railways and the Bengal government.
A spokesperson of South Eastern Railway said 28 bodies were still lying in the morgue for identification.
“In the accident, 296 people had died. Out of them, 268 bodies have been identified till date,” said the official.
A railway official said DNA matching was still being done.
Two other residents of Madhusudanpur 64 Bari, Ramtanunagar village, who were missing have been identified. One of them was Abachuddin Seikh. His father Ebadal said they received compensation from the railways.