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Global News Podcast

Signalling error may be cause of deadly India train crash

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

he collision is one of the worst in decades, with 288 people confirmed dead and more than a thousand injured. Also: Turkey's president appoints an orthodox economist as his new finance minister, signalling a possible change in approach to his country's economic crisis and, as Burna Boy packs out a stadium in London, we hear why Afrobeats and African tunes are taking the world by storm.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.4

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:06.7

This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 4th of June.

0:10.1

Officials in India are examining whether a signalling error

0:13.0

led to the train crash which killed 288 people.

0:16.7

Three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian are killed near the border,

0:20.4

but was at a mistake.

0:21.9

And as fighting continues in Sudan,

0:24.0

we hear about the threat to the treasures in the National Museum.

0:28.5

Also in the podcast, it got off to a very fast start,

0:33.2

but who won the first all-manchester FA Cup final?

0:36.9

And...

0:37.9

Burn the boy who's the first African artist to sell out a stadium here in the UK.

0:42.6

Afer beats, taking the world by storm.

0:53.0

The crash involving three trains in eastern India on Friday evening

1:00.0

is now officially the third most deadly on India's railways with 288 dead.

1:07.0

preliminary investigation suggests an error with signalling may have been to blame.

1:12.0

An enquiry is looking into a theory that an express train was diverted onto a loop line

1:17.0

where it smashed into a stationary goods train.

1:20.0

The carriage is derailed and were then hit by a second passenger train.

1:25.0

One survivor described the scene as a bloodbath on the tracks.

1:29.0

Among the many people caught up in it were two brothers.

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