India to probe railway collision that killed nine, injured dozens
Kolkata, India Reuters India will launch an investigation on Tuesday into a train collision that killed nine people in the state of West Bengal and injured more than 50, a day after a top railway official blamed the incident on driver error. The death toll was revised down to nine from 15 after Monday’s accident, […]
India rail crash probe focuses on electronic track management system
New Delhi, India Reuters Investigators are probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned and caused India’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades, railways officials said on Sunday. At least 275 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the tracks and hit […]
India rescue work ends as focus turns to cause of worst train crash in decades
Bahanaga, India Reuters Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some […]