The cause of a train crash that killed hundreds of people in India -- and the people responsible for it -- have been identified, India’s railways minister said.
Ashwini Vaishnaw said the three-way crash involving two passenger trains and a freight train in eastern Odisha state on Friday had happened “due to a change in electronic interlocking” – a reference to the signaling system used by railways – and that an investigation would show “who was responsible for that mistake.” “Let the enquiry report come out. But the cause has been identified and the people responsible for it have been identified,” he told Indian news agency ANI.
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