{"id":55746,"date":"2023-06-05T00:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/what-caused-the-india-train-crash-a-visual-guide-to-what-we-know"},"modified":"2023-06-05T00:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:53:28","slug":"what-caused-the-india-train-crash-a-visual-guide-to-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55746","title":{"rendered":"What caused the India train crash? A visual guide to what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s deadliest train crash in more 20 years involved two passenger trains and a stationary freight train<\/p>\n<p>As rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after India\u2019s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, focus turned to what might have caused the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/what-caused-the-india-train-crash-a-visual-guide-to-what-we-know\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s deadliest train crash in more 20 years involved two passenger trains and a stationary freight trainAs rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after India\u2019s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, focus turned to what might have cau&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"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":[62,766,61,2043,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rail-transport","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\/55746","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55758,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55746\/revisions\/55758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}