India investigated India’s deadliest rail crash in two decades on Monday after preliminary findings attributed to signal failure looked like a cause of the collision that killed at least 275 people and injured many more.
The train crash struck on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train. They bounced back, jumped over the tracks, and hit another passenger train passing near the district of Balosore in the eastern state of Odisha.
Non-stop efforts of the rescue team to rescue survivors and clear and repair the track. Trains were slowly diverted by the derailed and managed compartments. While repair work continued at the track side, where the clash happened.
At Kharagpur in west Bengal state, some 120 km (72 miles) in the direction of the north, railway officers and witnesses grazed to collect evidence in a two-day inquiry. The investigation was headed by A.W. Chowdhary, railway safety commissioner for the South-Eastern Circle.
The railway safety commissioner also said that he will submit his report to the railway board while the CBI investigation runs slowly.
Railway police filed a complaint of train crashes without naming anyone under the Indian Penal Code Section dealing with causing “grevious hurt” or “endangering life” by negligence.
On the basis of the current investigation report, it was indicated that the Coromandal Express, heading southbound to Chennai from Kolkata, moved off the main line and entered a loop track—a side track used to park trains—at 120 kph (80 mph), crashing with the stationary freight train.
Train engine and the first four or five coaches of the Coromandel Express to bounce back the tracks and topple and get hit by the last two coaches of the Yeshwantppur-Howrash train heading opposite towards the Coromandal Express at 126 kph on the second main track.
In the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) of the state capital Bhubaneswar’s hospitality, the authorities set up a large screen with pictures of the dead people to help their survivors’ families. 170 bodies are reported to be dead; 63 bodies have been identified and tagged with a tag number. The police require the DNA reports of the family members to proceed with the claim.
