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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sami Quadri

Indian rail crash that killed more than 300 people ‘caused by signalling failure’

A rail crash in India that killed more than 300 people was caused by a signalling failure that made a train wrongly change tracks, the country’s railway minister has said.

At least 900 people were left injured after two 12-coach express trains derailed near Odisha, around 140 miles from Kolkata, in a crash with a stationary freight train on Friday.

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