Srirangam (TN): Even as toll in the Jan 23 marriage hall fire tragedy went up to 57 today (Jan 25, 2004), there were reports of missing of four elderly persons who had gone to attend the wedding.

Police quoting the relatives said the four persons had gone to attend the wedding and had not returned home since the incident. The identification of all the victims have been ascertained.

Two of them were seen on the video films taken before the mishap occurred while the other two were not sighted in the video clippings.

The photographs of the two "missing" persons were published in the local dailies.

Police said they had also alerted the police stations and were confident of tracing them.

A person who had suffered burn injuries died today, police said.

A suspected short circuit had caused the fire in the marriage hall resulting in the death of large number of persons who had gone to attend the marriage.