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Probe into India rail disaster begins as train services resume

A train moves past a damaged coach at the site of a train collision in Odisha's Balasore district [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

India’s official investigation into its deadliest rail crash in 20 years has begun after preliminary findings point to signal failure as the likely cause for a collision that killed at least 275 people and injured nearly 1,200.

The disaster struck on Friday, when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction near the district of Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha.

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