India's federal police arrest three railway employees over deadly train crash

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The crash, India's deadliest in two decades, killed 292 people last month. Read more at straitstimes.com.

MUMBAI - India’s federal police have arrested three railway employees on Friday in connection with the country’slast month, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The June 2 crash at Bahanaga Bazar station, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, also injured more than 1,000 people.The accident happened when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped off the tracks and hit another passenger train coming from the opposite direction. Spokespersons for the Indian Railways and the CBI did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.

In a report seen by Reuters, the Commission of Railway Safety investigators said the first collision occurred due to modifications made to the signalling circuit to fix frequent problems at a nearby rail-road barrier.

 

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