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  • Turn now to the latest on what may have caused that deadly train disaster in India that killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1000 others.

  • Foreign correspondent James Longman joins us with the latest and James, the images on the ground there, just nightmarish.

  • Good morning.

  • Just horrific, Rebecca. Good morning.

  • India's railway minister has said that signal failure is to blame for that horrific crash that killed 275 people and injured more than 1000.

  • It's the deadliest crash in more than 20 years of its kind and the images as you say are just horrific.

  • A passenger train slammed into that stationary goods train because it was traveling on the wrong tracks,

  • and then, carriages flew through the air across the tracks and hit another train that was traveling in the other direction.

  • An inquiry has now been launched to work out whether or not this was human error or if it was a maintenance issue.

  • Millions of people travel on India's railways every day.

  • It is one of the largest networks in the world, although much of it does need improvement.

  • Prime Minister Modi has said that if there are individuals responsible, they will be held to account.

  • Although his government has come in to some criticism for focusing so much on showy projects like bullet trains rather than upgrading the existing system, Lindsay.

  • Just heart wrenching for the families of those victims, James, Our thanks to you.

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Turn now to the latest on what may have caused that deadly train disaster in India that killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1000 others.

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