Authorities in India have started investigating the country's deadliest train crash this century and investigators said they were likely to look at the possibility that someone could have deliberately tampered with the automatic signaling system.
Authorities in India have started investigating what led to the country's deadliest train crash this century. The
A worker inspects the newly-reopened track at the scene of a three-train collision near Balasore, 125 miles from the state capital Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, June 5, 2023."It is being suspected there was some kind of interference with the signaling system," Jaya Verma Sinha, a member of India's Railway Board, told reporters Sunday. She said nothing had been ruled out when asked if authorities suspected that someone could have tampered with the electronic system.
"I do not want to go into details," Vaishnaw said Sunday."I will just say that the root cause and the people responsible have been identified." Rescuers carry the body of a victim at the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, June 3, 2023.A panel of investigators appointed by the Railway Ministry was already investigating the train crash, in addition to a separate probe by the Commissioner of Railway Safety. They were expected to wrap up their investigations within two weeks and submit a report to the government.
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