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Weekend: Investigations launched into India train crash

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Investigations launched into India train crash

04/06/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Investigations launched into India train crash

Early investigations reveal the train collision may have been due to a signal failure

Early investigations reveal the train collision may have been due to a signal failure.

There are calls for the resignation of government ministers and railway officials in India, following a train crash in the Indian state of Odisha. Two separate investigations have been launched into the accident, which the Railway Minister said would determine whether signal failure, human error or other possible reasons were to blame. Early investigations suggest it was a signal failure.

Also on the programme: the appointment of Turkey’s new finance minister, Mehmet Şimşek, and President Erdogan’s plan to abandon the unorthodox line of keeping interest rates low, despite high inflation. 

Julian Worricker is joined by guests Timothy Garton Ash, British historian, author and commentator at Oxford University; and Noga Tarnopoloski, a freelance reporter on Israel and the Palestinian territories, in Jerusalem.

(Picture: People look at pictures to identify bodies of victims of a train collision in India. Credit: Reuters)

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