Families of the three train crash victims who died on Friday in India have spoken of their ongoing, desperate searches for their loved ones.
According to a woman searching for her adult son, she spent 30 hours getting to the crash site, stopping at morgues and hospitals along the way.
The rescue effort in Odisha was officially declared to be over on Saturday, but an eyewitness claimed to have seen a survivor being retrieved the following morning.
275 people have died as of this writing.
The disaster, India's worst rail accident in decades, appears to have been caused by a signaling error.
When Lilavati Devi told the BBC on Sunday that she was still looking for her son despite the fact that the other eight members of her family who were on one of the trains had been found, she started to cry.
I hope we can find him somewhere, someway," she prayed. "I don't want anything else. God bless and protect my son. ".
She was traveling with her 22-year-old son Raja Sahani and family members from their hometown in the northeastern state of Bihar to the affluent southern city of Bangalore, where they work odd jobs as daily wagers.
They boarded the ill-fated train in the city of Howrah, where they had to change trains. Raja uploaded a picture of himself there.
Lilavati received a call from another family member informing her that there had been an accident several hours after he left. After that, she repeatedly attempted to call Raja, but the phone was off.
She said that so far, her search had produced nothing. They hired a car for the trip for 45,000 rupees ($438), which was far beyond their means.
Even the local morgues and hospitals were searched, but she couldn't find him. "We asked the morgues to continuously play photos of all the dead bodies. But he is not present. ".
At least 187 bodies were still unidentified, state official for Odisha Pradeep Jena told the BBC.
Officials were posting pictures of the victims on official websites and, if necessary, conducting DNA tests, the official said.
For us, it's a significant challenge, he said.
Others have been traveling between the various temporary centers to look at pictures and try to learn more.
The 26-year-old son of Vishwanath Sahni, who was traveling to Chennai at the time of the disaster, was still missing, he said in an AFP interview.
He said, "I don't know if I'll find my son," as he waited at a morgue after checking with every hospital he could.
Search efforts at the crash site appear to have continued despite railway officials' claims on Saturday that all trapped and hurt people at the scene had been rescued.
The injured survivor was pulled from the twisted wreckage and then rushed to the hospital, according to journalist and author Sandeep Sahu, who told the BBC of the "miraculous" discovery on Sunday morning.
He claimed that 36 hours after the accident, dead bodies were still being discovered and that he had witnessed the removal of five of these from the scene.
These were put in a nearby school that had been converted into a makeshift morgue.
He described the moment when one of the victims' mobile phones rang as "horrifying," but no one answered the call.
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