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India saw one of its deadliest train disaster in decades on Friday near Balasore in the eastern state of Odisha, a tragedy officials have said was linked to an electronic signal system...
According to the local media, preliminary investigations have pointed to human error connected to the signalling system...
The National Disaster Response Force on Monday ended its rescue operation with the withdrawal of all its nine teams from the triple train accident site in Odisha's Balasore district that has claimed at least 275 lives, officials said..
Local media have quoted a preliminary investigation report, with the Times of India saying a "human error in signalling may have caused the collision between three trains"...
Defective tracks, poor maintenance and old signalling kit combined with human error were the main cause, it said.. Indian Railways, the world's fourth-largest rail network, runs some 14,000 trains daily with 8,000 locomotives over a vast system of tracks some 64,000 kilometres (40,000 miles) long...
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