CNN —Indian authorities have arrested three railway officials as part of an investigation into one of the deadliest train crashes in the country’s history.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said in a statement that they had arrested three Department of Railways officials on Friday.
The move follows the deaths of at least 275 people in a three-way crash involving two passenger trains and a freight train in eastern Odisha state on June 2.
The railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has previously said the accident had occurred “due to a change in electronic interlocking” and that an investigation would show “who was responsible” for that.
According to senior railway officials, the crash took place when the Coromandel Express, a high-speed train traveling from Kolkata to Chennai, was diverted onto a loop line and slammed into a heavy goods train idled at Bahanaga Bazar railway station.
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