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The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signalling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said on Sunday. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-04/signalling-error-led-to-deadly-train-crash-in-india/102439034

Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Balasore district in Odisha state in one of the country's deadliest rail disasters in decades.

An Odisha government statement revised the death toll to 275 after a top state officer put the number at over 300 on Sunday morning.

The officer spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to reporters.

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