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The Hindu : Cities / Chennai : Death toll in TN Express fire rises to 34 by eabhi200k on 05 August, 2012 - 12:21 AM
avatar eabhi200k The Hindu : Cities / Chennai : Death toll in TN Express fire rises to 34 on 05 August, 2012 - 12:21 AM

The death toll in Tamil Nadu Express fire rose to 34 with a student from Amritsar, Sukhdev Singh, succumbing to severe burns on Saturday after battling for life for six days at Narayana Hospital in Nellore.

He suffered burns of above 55 per cent in the ghastly mishap which took place in early hours of July 30. His father Gurdeep Singh, a railway employee working as a plumber at Northern Railway Mechanical Workshop, Amritsar, is making preparations to take the body back home by flight from Chennai.

Twenty three year old Sukhdev Singh, was a student of Indian Maritime University, East Coast Road, Chennai. He was returning along with three co-students after a visit to Amritsar when the accident took place.