Signal failure is suspected as the cause of Friday’s collision, which claimed at least 275 lives
About 120km north, at Kharagpur, in West Bengal state, railway officials and witnesses gathered to submit evidence to a two-day inquiry, led by AM Chowdhary, commissioner of railway safety for the south-eastern circle.
India’s Railway Board, the top executive body, has recommended that the Central Bureau of Investigation take over the investigation into the cause of the disaster. A drone view shows derailed coaches after trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India. Picture: REUTERS That crash caused the engine and first four or five coaches of the Coromandel Express to jump the tracks, topple and hit the last two coaches of the Yeshwantpur-Howrah train heading in the opposite direction at 126km/h on the second main track.
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