NEW DELHI: Indian police said Friday (Jul 7) they had arrested three men over a triple-train collision that killed nearly 300 people last month, one of the worst rail accidents in the country's history.
one of the worst rail accidents in the country's history.
Three railway employees had been charged with culpable homicide and destruction of evidence in a case filed against them on Thursday, a statement from the Central Bureau of Investigation said. Carriages had flipped over entirely and rescue workers scrambled to pull out survivors trapped in the mangled wreckage, with scores of bodies laid out under white sheets beside the tracks.Relatives spent days combing through possessions and looking at post-mortem pictures of those killed in the crash, to identify their loved ones.
Indian Railways, the world's fourth-largest rail network, runs some 14,000 trains daily with 8,000 locomotives over a vast system of tracks around 64,000km long.
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