India's railways minister has said a horrific rail crash which killed more than 300 people was caused by a signalling error which led to a train wrongly changing tracks. He said 'who has done it and what is the reason will come out of an investigation.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently focusing on modernising the British colonial-era rail network, as the country sees several hundred accidents every year.
India's train network is the largest under one management in the world - more than 12 million people take 14,000 trains across the country every day, travelling on 40,000 miles of track.Photographs of people killed in the crash have been laid out to be identified Efforts to clear the mangled wreckage from the tracks concluded this morning, with 15 more bodies recovered on Saturday.
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