Five bodies recovered from the charred remains of the central ammunition depot at Pulgaon continued to remain unidentified, informed sources. Furthermore, on Thursday, post-mortem of all 19 bodies was completed and mortal remains of five martyrs were dispatched to Nagpur airport to be sent to their respective native places.
Nagpur defence sources informed that the mortal remains of Lt Col R.S. Pawar (38) were enroute to Haridwar while the mortal remains of Major K. Manoj Kumar (42) had arrived at Nagpur enroute Trivandrum. “Remains of five martyrs were sent to Nagpur airport and from there, they will be sent to their native place by air,” said sources. Mortal remains of Naik Ran Singh (47) were sent to Rewari (Haryana) via Nagpur and of DSC Satya Prakash (55) to Kanpur.
Five bodies remained unidentified which is why a DNA test would be conducted on them to identify them. Late evening on Wednesday, local medical teams recovered a few body parts and suspected that either the body parts belonged to any one person or any of the 18 persons who died in the fire that broke out at Pulgaon on Tuesday. After the post-mortem, the body parts were sent for a DNA test.
Also, local medical teams took DNA samples of family members of the five unidentified bodies to check and match them with samples of bodies and remains. Defence sources said that officials had urged medical authorities to check samples and give results as soon as possible. “After getting the results, bodies of all unidentified persons will be handed over to their relatives,” said sources. Other deceased include Navjyot Singh (26), Dharmendra Yadav (33), Amit Pooniya (25), Kishan Sarot (27), Leeladhar Chopde (40), Amit Dandekar (37), Amol Yesankar (30), Ramchandra Singh (42) and Satish Singh (40).
On Tuesday, a massive fire broke out at one of Asia’s biggest ammunition depots in Maharashtra’s Pulgaon that houses the largest stockpile of weapons in the country. The fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday in one of the sheds that housed “highly sensitive ammunition”.
