Cause and ‘people responsible’ for India train crash identified


Rescue workers around the damaged carriages at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, about 200km from the state capital Bhubaneswar, in the eastern state of Odisha on June 2, 2023. The railway minister says the cause and people responsible for the rail crash have been identified. – AFP pic, June 4, 2023.

INDIA’S railway minister said today the cause and people responsible for the country’s worst train crash in decades had been identified, pointing to an electronic signal system without giving further details.

“We have identified the cause of the accident and the people responsible for it,” India’s Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told news agency ANI, but said it was “not appropriate” to give details before a final investigation report.


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