Indian authorities said preliminary findings showed a signal failure caused a train accident that killed nearly 300 people on Friday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to punish those responsible.India’s railway minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said on Sunday that the government had “identified the cause of the incident and the people responsible for it”. Early findings suggested a failure in the “electronic interlocking” system, which controls the movement of trains, resulted in the three-way collision around Balasore station in the eastern state of Odisha.
印度当局表示,初步调查结果显示上周五发生的火车事故是信号故障所致,事故造成近300人死亡,总理纳伦德拉•莫迪(Narendra Modi)誓言要惩罚事故责任人。