Odisha Migrant Worker Returning Home From Surat Dies On Train

The body was recovered from a coach of the Ahmedabad-Puri Express when it reached the Berhampur railway station on Tuesday morning.

A 39-year-old migrant worker, who was returning home to Odisha's Ganjam district from Surat, died in a train, the Government Railway Police (GRP) said on Tuesday. GRP personnel recovered the body of the man, identified as Biswanath Jena, from a coach of the Ahmedabad-Puri Express when it reached the Berhampur railway station on Tuesday morning. "We can't rule out his death due to Covid-19. The exact cause of the death will be known only after the post-mortem examination. It will be conducted following all COVID-19 protocols," inspector in-charge, GRP Berhampur, Jyoti Prakash Nayak, said. Biswanath Jena along with several others had boarded the train from Surat to return home amid a surge in coronavirus cases in the textile city of Gujarat.