2023-06-04 12:36:40
In India the entire country remains in shock as images of the devastating crash of three trains in Balasorein the eastern state of Odisha, and this Sunday the Minister of Railway Transport Ashwini Vaishnaw pointed out that “the causes and those responsible have already been identified” of disaster, whose balance is already close to 300 dead and a thousand wounded.
The minister himself is in the eye of the hurricane, due to criticism of the disastrous railway service in that country, which has accumulated tragedies for decades, but trying to find those responsible among the signalmen or the train drivers themselves, Vaishnaw told journalists “We have identified the cause of the accident and the persons responsible.”
According to the versions, a “change occurred during electronic interlock”the signaling system that controls the circulation of the units, would have been the one that caused the disaster.
The tragic accident occurred last Friday near Balasorea city located in the eastern state of Odisha, and left a salgo of at least 290 dead and an estimated 900 injured. For his part, Vaishnaw said he did not consider it “appropriate” to delve into the details before the final report of the investigation is drawn up.
Meanwhile, corpses and relatives of the passengers are piling up desolately through those morgues, trying to identify if their loved ones are among the victims.
Likewise, in a preliminary investigation to which the media outlet had access The Times of India, it was specified that what happened could be the consequence of a “human error”.
as reportedthe unit that linked Calcutta with Chennai, the Coromandal Express, had received the green light to travel on the main road. However, due to obvious human error, he was diverted onto a track where a freight train was stopped. There are no accidents without human errors, the issue in India is that the railway system in general in many areas of the country has a precarious infrastructure, with units that have been in use for many years, and that later leads to accidents.
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Immediately afterwards, the train loaded with passengers collided with the second unit at a speed of 130 km/h and left three of the coaches lying on the adjacent track, as well as hitting the rear of an express passenger en route to Calcutta from Bangalore.
Almost 300 people died as a result of the tragedy, although the authorities fear that the number of deaths could rise to 380, according to the director of the Odisha fire department, Sudhanshu Sarangi.
For his part, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modiheld that “No one responsible for the accident will be unscathed” and, in dialogue with the public chain Doordarshan, He added: “I pray that we get out of this sad time as quickly as possible.”
The rescue tasks in the place ended 24 hours after the accident once all the wagons that were destroyed by what happened were inspected. “All corpses and injured passengers were evacuated from the accident site”confirmed a person in charge of the emergency coordination room in Balasore to AFP.
This was the worst rail accident in India since 1995, when a collision between two expresses near the Agra region left more than 300 dead. An even more serious accident occurred on June 6, 1981 in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, when seven train carriages fell from a bridge into the Bagmati river, causing the death of between 800 and 1000 passengers.
School used as a morgue
Due to the large number of deaths derived from the accident, a secondary school located in the vicinity of the place was transformed into a makeshift morgue where the relatives of the victims had to approach the authorities to identify their loved ones.
In any case, the head of the temporary morgue, Arvind Agarwal pointed out that the majority of the corpses “are unrecognizable”so families have been informed that they may have to undergo dna testing to identify their relatives.
All the health centers near the place of the tragedy had to receive those affected by the incident, which required the work of some 200 ambulances accompanied by buses dedicated solely to the transfer of the victims of the crash.
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