India’s deadliest train crash in more 20 years involved two passenger trains and a stationary freight train

As rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after India’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, focus turned to what might have caused the accident.

Friday’s crash in the eastern state of Odisha involved three trains: the Coromandel Express, heading south to Chennai from Kolkata, the Yesvantpur-Howrah, heading in the opposite direction from Bengaluru to Kolkata, and a stationary freight train.

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