{"id":55727,"date":"2023-06-04T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/india-train-disaster-cause-of-crash-under-investigation-as-rescue-work-finishes-with-death-toll-passing-300"},"modified":"2023-06-04T23:15:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:15:23","slug":"india-train-disaster-signal-fault-blamed-as-wreckage-cleared-from-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55727","title":{"rendered":"India train disaster: signal fault identified as cause, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Train was diverted on to wrong tracks, says railways minister as efforts to clear wreckage continue<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s railways minister has said the country\u2019s deadliest train crash in more than two decades was caused by an error in electronic signals that sent a train on to the wrong tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwini Vaishnaw said the full investigation into Friday\u2019s crash in the eastern state of Odisha, which killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1,000, was still under way but \u201cthe root cause has been identified\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/india-train-disaster-cause-of-crash-under-investigation-as-rescue-work-finishes-with-death-toll-passing-300\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train was diverted on to wrong tracks, says railways minister as efforts to clear wreckage continueIndia\u2019s railways minister has said the country\u2019s deadliest train crash in more than two decades was caused by an error in electronic signals that sent a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-train-crashes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55759,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55727\/revisions\/55759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}