Raipur(IANS) : A team of doctors here Friday struggled to put together for post-mortem examination the severely mutilated body parts of 10 soldiers of the India Reserve Battalion, killed in a powerful landmine blast Thursday.
“The bodies of all 10 soldiers were brought here Thursday morning, but the doctors found it extremely tough to put together the mutilated and disfigured body parts for a formal post-mortem examination,” a source in the police headquarters told IANS.
The soldiers, all form Mizoram, were killed in the Maoist affected district of Dantewada and would be taken to their home state after completion of formalities here.
“It was horrible to see how the doctors collected body pieces and organs of the soldiers to complete the formality of autopsy so that the bodies can be sent back to the troops’ home state,” Rajkumar Devangan, spokesman of the police department, told IANS over phone.
He also said that the police department was waiting for a special plane till late Friday evening to take the bodies from Raipur to Aizawl.