WELCOME / International / India. Signaling problems are believed to have been the cause of the train disaster
India’s Minister of Railways told ANI news agency on June 4: have identified the cause of the accident and the person responsible for its” following a collision between three trains, which occurred on June 2 near Balasore, in Odisha state. The disaster, one of the deadliest in recent years in India (a country which has suffered 13 major rail accidents since the start of the century), based on provisional estimates of 275 killed and 900 injured.
Without going into details, pending final investigation, Ashwini Vaishnaw pointed out “changes that occur during electronic binding are the cause of accidentsrefers to the signaling system. According to the Times of India daily, human error will also lead to a collision between the three trains: a passenger train connecting Calcutta to Madras will be diverted due to human error on a line where a freight train will already pass. has reached a speed of 130 km / hour. Three carriages then tumbled onto a nearby track, crashing into an express train connecting Bangalore and Calcutta. It was this collision that caused the most damage, according to the Indian press.
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