Balasore train accident toll mounts to 292
The death toll in the Balasore train accident rose to 292 on Sunday with a 24-year-old passenger from West Bengal succumbing to his injuries at a state-run hospital here, an official said.
Paltu Naskar was undergoing treatment at the central ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital and breathed his last during the day, he said.
Naskar was a resident of South 24 Parganas of West Bengal.
He was injured in the train accident on June 2 and admitted to the hospital in critical condition, an East Coast Railway official said, adding that the person was on ventilator support from June 17 as his condition deteriorated.
