Indian police said on Thursday they had found the body of a man on a train that had traveled 900 kilometers through the north of the country, locked in a toilet, undetected.
It is believed that days before leaving Bihar state, the man boarded the train and died in the bathroom after locking the door.
Ram Sahay, a railway police officer, told AFP the door was broken down on Sunday after passengers complained about the stench.
The convoy traveled for nearly 24 hours, for a total journey of 35 hours when the discovery was made.
“We still don’t know anything about the man,” Sahay said.
“He may have got on the train when it was stopped and died two or three days before he was found,” he said.
Sanjay Rai, a doctor at the railway hospital, told The Times of India newspaper that the man “died after possibly falling into a coma”.
Authorities distributed posters of the man near Bihar station.
Every year in India, tens of thousands of bodies go unclaimed and unidentified. They are usually cremated by the police three days after trying to locate relatives or friends of the deceased.
Source: DN
