The collisions involved two passenger trains and a goods train. At least 14 passengers were killed and over 50 injured in Sundays collision between Visakhapatnam-Palasa passenger and Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger near Kantakapalli junction in Kothavalasa mandal (block).
CBI filed a charge sheet against three arrested Railways officials for alleged culpable homicide not amounting to murder and destruction of evidence in connection with the June 2 Balasore train accident case
Union Minister further said that the Commissioner of Railway Safety under the Ministry of Civil Aviation has completed its inquiry into the Balasore train accident
The CRS, which is probing the Balasore accident, in its report also highlighted the "lapses in the signalling-circuit-alteration" carried out at the north signal 'goomty'.
The Coromandel Express runs at a speed of 130 km/hr and covers a distance of 1659 kms between Shalimar railway station, West Bengal, and Chentntral railway station, Tamil Nadu.
Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "Our goal is to make sure missing persons' family members can find them as soon as possible...our responsibility is not over yet."
Before leaving for Odisha from Delhi, the Prime Minister chaired a high-level meeting with regard to the tragic train mishap at the Bahanagar Bazar railway station on Friday evening.
By Saturday afternoon the number of people who were killed in the incident had gone up to 261 while around 900 have been been injured, according to officials
The train crash, one of the deadliest in the country, took place in Balasore district about 250 km south of Kolkata and 170 km north of Bhubaneswar around 7 pm on Friday