A 25-year-old man charged with manslaughter after a railway level crossing tragedy near Evesham has been remanded in custody again, awaiting trial.

Adnan Kadir Karam, of Carpenters Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, who appeared before a judge at Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday for a preliminary hearing, spoke only to confirm his name.

No charges were put to him.

He is alleged to have been the driver of a minibus which was in collision with a train on a private level crossing at a farm in Charlton on July 7.

At an earlier hearing before Worcester magistrates, the defendant was charged with three counts of manslaughter. Those who died were Soran Karim, 23, from Iraq, Satish Kumar, 28, from India and 46-year-old Islam Uddin Ahmed from Bangladesh.

Karam, an Iraqi Kurd who speaks no English, was helped by an interpreter to understand the short proceedings in front of Judge Michael Mott.

Nigel Reader, for the Crown, was given until September 9 by the judge to serve the case papers. Karam will be brought back to court on October 6 to plead to the charges.

His solicitor Charles Hamer said he might be making a bail application to a judge at a later stage.

Karam, wearing a maroon T-shirt and blue jeans, had his right arm in a sling and needed a crutch to help him walk into the dock.

l Two of the three men who died in the accident at Pools Crossing have still not been claimed by their families.

Farm labourers Soran Karim and Satish Bakshi are still lying in a mortuary in Worcester and the Red Cross have now been called in to help trace their families.

The relatives of the third man who died, Islam Ahmed, 46, a father-of-three from Bangladesh, have claimed his body.