Indian authorities have arrested three railway officials as part of an investigation into one of the deadliest train crashes in the country’s history.
The Central Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that they had arrested three Department of Railways officials on Friday.
Initial investigations had suggested a traffic signaling failure may have occurred, though these can be due to either technical malfunctions or human error.“We can’t bring back those we have lost but the government is with them in their grief,” said Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi when he visited the scene of the disaster soon after it took place.
He has also previously claimed the cause and people responsible have been identified, though he stopped short of elaborating. The situation was made worse by a combination of the high speeds – more than 120 kmph – at which both passenger trains were traveling and the heavy weight of the freight train, which was carrying iron ore, according to Jaya Varma Sinha, an Indian railways ministry official.
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