The Odisha government on Friday began demolishing the 65-year-old Bahanaga High School building that was used as a temporary morgue for victims of Coromandel Express.
The demolition was being carried out in presence of the school managing committee (SMC) members and Public Works Department
Odisha School that stored Crash Victims' bodies demolished to calm spooked students. Teachers have advised administration to perform like havan to clam the students and also to do their counselling. , Education News, Times Now
Such is the reluctance of the young students and their parents to come back to a building associated with tragic mass death that the school management committee (SMC) has pleaded with the state government to demolish the building as it is old.
Younger students are scared, admitted Bahanaga High School Headmistress Pramila Swain, adding that the school planned to conduct spiritual programmes and follow some rituals to help them overcome their fears
Though the bodies have been shifted to Bhubaneswar and the school campus has been sanitised and cleaned, the students and the guardians are scared and in a state of panic.