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Modi visits train crash site, as signals failure suspected

A preliminary report blamed India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades on signal failure, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the scene to talk to rescue workers and inspect the wreckage.

At least 288 people died and 803 are injured, officials say, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one.

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