Indian authorities arrest 3 railway officials over the train crash that killed more than 290 people

By SHEIKH SAALIQ
Associated Press

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s federal crime agency has arrested three railway officials in connection with one of the country’s deadliest train accidents, which killed more than 290 people last month. The Central Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Friday that three men have been charged with culpable homicide without murder, and destruction of evidence. It identified them as two signal engineers and one technician. June’s train crash in eastern Odisha state occurred when a passenger train got diverted onto an adjacent loop line and rammed into a freight train. The collision derailed the train’s coaches onto another track where they hit a passing train. The train crash was India’s deadliest since 1995.