Visiting the injured at Ursula and Hallet Hospitals in Kanpur in the afternoon, Chouhan announced Rs 2 lakh assistance to the kin of each the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the injured. He also said the grievously injured will be taken to Bhopal if they want, the Madhya Pradesh Water Resources minister said.
Mishra himself visited the Mati mortuary in Kanpur rural where bodies of the accident victims are kept.
Over 100 passengers were killed and more than 200 injured, nearly half of them grievously, when 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express derailed near Pukhraya in Kanpur dehat district in the wee hours today.