BHUBANESWAR: Workers repairing a rail-road barrier in India made faulty connections in the automated signalling system on the network, leading to the country's worst rail disaster in two deca
, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, killed 288 people and injured more than 1,000., jumped off the tracks and hit another passenger train coming from the opposite direction.
In the probe report, seen by Reuters, the Commission of Railway Safety investigators said the first collision occurred due to modifications done to the signalling circuit to fix frequent problems at a nearby rail-road barrier. Reuters last month reported for the first time that investigators were focusing on the repair work on the rail-road barrier and its possible connection to a manual bypass of the signalling system.
Indian Railways, the fourth largest train network in the world, is a state monopoly run by the Railway Board. The board reports to the Railways Ministry.
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