The crash, India's worst train collision in decades, occurred on Friday (2 June). Two passenger trains and one freight train collided near the city of Balasore in the state of Odisha.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that no Singaporeans were involved in the deadly train collision that has claimed close to 300 lives in eastern India.
This is the fourth-deadliest rail disaster of the 21st century and India’s worst rail crash since the Firozabad rail disaster in 1995. Preliminary reports by the Indian government indicate that the accident may have been caused by either signal failure or human error.
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