What caused the train accident that killed nearly 300 people in India? The investigation is still in full swing, but according to the Indian railway minister, everything points to an error with the signaling.
This incorrect signaling caused a train to go on the wrong track, after which it collided with a stationary freight train. “Who is responsible for this and why it happened, our investigation has yet to reveal,” the responsible railway minister told the Indian Railways on Sunday. NDTV.
The train crash, one of the deadliest in India’s history, involved a total of three trains. Several wagons of the train that collided with a stationary freight train ended up on another track. Not much later, another train collided with the derailed wagons at over 100 kilometers per hour.
According to those involved, the fact that the death toll could rise so high is due to the heavy load of the freight train that the passenger train collided with at full speed. employee of Indian Railways Sunday.
According to the employee, the impact was so great that the front wagons of the passenger train were lifted over the freight train, after which they fell to the ground. “That explains the enormous impact on the passenger train and the large number of deaths and injuries.”
11,000 euros for families of victims killed
While many people in India are busy with the question of guilt, rescuers and relatives at the crash site are still searching for victims.s Five bodies were taken to a school on Sunday morning that is now used as a mortuary. “We don’t know how many more bodies are coming,” an aid worker told the news agency Reuters.
It causes great unrest among family members who have gathered in a business center near the disaster site. There bodies of victims are collected in order to identify them. Dozens of people are desperately looking for loved ones with identity cards and photos in hand.
Press agency Reuters spoke to a woman who was told her husband had not made it. She stayed with the center to claim financial compensation. Families of fatal victims will receive the equivalent of 11,000 euros, the railway minister Vaishnaw said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the disaster site on Saturday. He spoke with some of the 1,200 injured. “Those found guilty will be severely punished,” he promised.
2023-06-04 11:12:00
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