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The minister was replying to questions by Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader John Brittas and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh in Rajya Sabha on the tragedy. The tragic incident of the triple train accident on June 2 involving the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express, the Howrah-bound Shalimar Express and a goods train. Balasore Triple Train Accident: 41 Bodies Await Identification at AIIMS Bhubaneswar in Odisha.

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated that over the past five years, there have been 13 instances of signalling failure in the railways

Jake hortonis in the newsroom with more. bbc verify had been looking at the circumstances surrounding the deadly rail crash in india. we've been looking at exactly how and why it happened on friday evening. the image behind me here shows the aftermath in odisha. and aerial footage taken today shows a sheer scale of destruction. three trains were involved and you can see several passenger carriages derailed and debris strewn across the tracks. this close up image shows the front of the coromandel express. this is the train which first collided. it hit a stationary freight train. and authorities...

And the passenger train seen behind me, took the full force of the collision. investigators have also said this was likely down to a signalling failure. so let's look a bit how this could have happened. there were two passenger trains involved. there was the coromandel express, highlighted in red behind me here, travelling south. and there was the howrah express, highlighted in blue behind me here, travelling north. investigators said both of these trains were travelling below the 130 kilometre hour speed limit, so this wasn't where the problem laid. the problem happened due to a signalfailure...

Odisha tragedy: According to the initial report, the signal was given and taken off for the up main line for the Coromandel Express but the train entered into a loop line and clashed with goods train which was on the up-loop line and derailed.