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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh

India rescue work ends as focus turns to cause of worst train crash in decades

REUTERS/Stringer

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 bodies had been counted twice, said Pradeep Jena, chief secretary of the eastern state of Odisha.

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