Confusion reigned in hospitals as relatives ran door to door looking for their missing beloved ones. The helplines are also of not much help as the lists display wrong names. In the past 24 hours, out of 41 bodies, 33 are lying unrecognised in the LNJP.
The toll of the incident was 66 and 63 are admitted in various hospitals, including Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital and Hedgewar Hospital.
“As per the list, my brother has been admitted in the emergency ward of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital but when I went to the ward after pleading the policemen and hospital authorities, I came to know that the bed had Ben allotted to one Ranjit. I have not been able to trace my brother yet,” Veena said. Her mother is also missing.
It took 14 hours for Jatin Haldar to trace his two children who were injured in the incident. “My son Subroto and daughter Laxmi were injured in the accident. It took me 14 hours to trace them in LNJP,” Haldar said. He resided on the fourth floor along with his wife and seven children. Tutun Yadav, 25, was having dinner along with her siblings on the fourth floor when she felt herself descending in the rubble. “I was having food. Everything around me was let loose and I fell into the rubble from the fourth floor. After that I fell unconscious,” Tinta said recuperating in Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital. She has suffered head injuries.
Most of the survivors were residents of the upper floors, third, fourth and fifth floors and have suffered head injuries.
The scenes were similar in the Lal Bahadur Shastri hospital.
Rakhi had nine members in her family out of which eight have died and she survived because she was out of the building at the time of the accident.