'SIGNAL FAULT' LED TO TRAINS HORROR millim

AN electronic signalling error caused the train crash in India which killed 275 people and injured 1,175 more, it has been revealed

- ANDY LINES

The computer glitch sent one of the trains involved on to the wrong track, where it crashed with a goods train.

Ten to 12 coaches of the passenger train derailed and debris on the tracks then caused three coaches of another passenger train coming from the opposite direction to derail.

After the signalling error was revealed, India’s railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said: “Who has done it and what is the reason will come out during an investigation.”

Local hospitals were described as “like war zones” due to the number of casualties. Of the 1,175 injured people taken to hospital, 793 have been discharged.

More than 100 people were critically injured. The authorities were yesterday still trying to clear the mangled wreckage of the trains, which derailed around Balasore station in the eastern state of Odisha.