- An electronic signaling system error Friday caused a train to incorrectly change tracks and collide with a freight train, derailing and killing hundreds of people and injuring hundreds more in eastern India, officials said Sunday.
- Two passenger trains, carrying 2,296 people in Odisha state.
- Preliminary investigations show that the high-speed Coromandel Express received a signal to run on the main track, but after the signal changed, the train entered an adjacent loop line and collided into an iron ore freight train.
- The collision flipped Coromandel Express’s coaches onto a nearby track, which caused the incoming Yesvantpur-Howrah Express to also derail.
- The death toll from the collision has ranged from at least 275 to more than 300 people.
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India Investigators Say Electronic Signal Error Cause Of Train Derailment Killing Hundreds
Rescuers work at the site after 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track near Pukhrayan village in Kanpur Dehat district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016. Scores of passengers died and scores more were injured in the accident. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
