Indian Railways has witnessed a spate of railway fire accidents over decades. The reasons are all well-known but no action has been taken to drill down root causes and develop “zero tolerance” for fire accidents
vacation time for people to move around. then recall this happened after dark, just adding to the fear and perhaps part of why the operators were not able to see when they slammed into derailed train cars when they all took place, terribly, on friday night. terrifying. ivan watson reporting from eastern india, thank you so much. now as the u.s. and chinese defense chiefs exchange tough words at a security conference in singapore, the pentagon is reporting another disturbing encounter between the two countries. they say a chinese military ship came close to colliding with a u.s. destroyer saturday in the taiwan strait. taiwan is calling for china to respect the freedom of navigation, but china s defense minister said u.s. naval vessels are here for provocation. li shun fu spoke to the conference and demanded that
mistake in counting some bodies twice. this remains india s worst train accident more than two decades. early reports are blaming a change in electronic interlocking. i show you this, fresh aerial footage, drone video of the scene of the crash filmed earlier today on sunday. it is harrowing. it shows you the wreckage of the trains, some turned on their sides, some completely upside down. excavators and cranes are on site to move the coaches off the tracks. workers have been there nonstop to clear and repair the tracks. and of course you have the recovery teams are trying to locate the missing. but there is little hope in finding any survivors on this day. it s believed that dead bodies are still inside the train, so the death toll is expected to rise. this tragedy took place around 7:00 p.m. local time on friday. it was when one high-speed passenger train collided into a
official. he has been ordered to request a mental and physical evaluation from the veterans administration. investigators did not identify the targeted senator by name. authorities in india say they have identified the cause of the country s worst train crash in decades. according to the railway minister, it was the result of a change in the electronic signaling system. the minister also says the people responsible have been identified, but he didn t provide further details. authorities are now clearing the wreckage and have ended their search for survivors. cnn s kristie lu stout joins us now for more on these developments. what s the latest on the search for the missing? reporter: work is still under way to clear the wreckage, to find the missing. we do have a revision in the death toll after this train crash in india. it s been revised down to 275 from 288. an official says there was a
derailed passenger train. both trains derailed, then a third train, a freight train slammed into those derailed coaches. we ve been collecting survivor accounts and they are heartbreaking. listen to this from a 55-year-old mother who witnessed her daughter die before her eyes. is. translator: as we kept rolling, my daughter got stuck and got buried under bulky iron in front of my eyes. i managed to stand in the corner, but i was hit in the head by some iron rod or something. i thought about how to get my daughter out from underneath the iron but didn t know how to move such heavy iron. my daughter kept crying and died right in front of my eyes. reporter: a heart-piercing account. earlier saturday, the indian prime minister, narendra modi, he visited the scene of the disaster. and on twitter, he shared this. let s bring up his statement for you. he said, took stock of the situation at the site of the