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As the news of their deaths came, a pall of gloom descended on the village

A family in the Soth 24 Parganas of West Bengal lost three of its members who were migrant workers and were travelling back to Tamil Nadu to find work. The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced an ex gratia of Rs 5lakhs for the kin of the victims who have died from the state.

Three brothers from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train accident in Odisha's Balasore, officials said.

The loud bang survivors of the Coromandel Express recall from the point of impact still rings in their ears as they count their dead, assess their own injuries and contemplate the toughest question before them – what now?

Three brothers from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, who were travelling to Tamil Nadu in search of work, lost their lives in the train accident in Odisha’s...

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My father and uncles are no more, our family is devastated, said an inconsolable Avijit, the son of Haran.

A total of 110 people from the district were injured, 44 were missing and 16 have so far returned to their homes.

A pall of gloom descended over Charanikhali village in Basanti Uttar area of South 24 Parganas district on Saturday as the news of the death of the three brothers reached the family.

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