Signal failure led to India's deadly train crash, officials say

Indian authorities on Sunday completed rescue operations after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people.

The death toll from Friday night’s crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said Pradeep Jena, chief secretary of the eastern state of Odisha.

The tally was unlikely to rise, he told reporters. “Now the rescue operation is complete.”

Nearly 1,200 people were injured when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, jumped the tracks and hit another passenger