Railway workers help to restore services at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, about 200 km from the state capital Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, on June 4, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)
NEW DELHI – India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday arrested three railway officials over last month's train accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha that killed nearly 300 people and left over 1,000 others injured.
"The investigation by CBI has revealed that the actions of these three lead to the accident," said an official.
CBI was probing the possibility of a criminal conspiracy into the accident.
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The Commissioner of Railways Safety (CRS), which was also probing the accident last week, flagged the human error of workers in the signaling department as a reason for the deadly accident.