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| Officials investigating the cause of one of the deadliest train wrecks in India’s history were focusing on the possibility that a signal failure caused the disaster, after rescue efforts ended and all derailed cars were removed from the tracks on Sunday. |
| Two days after the crash on Friday in the eastern state of Odisha left at least 275 people dead, families of the victims were still struggling to reach the site of the wreck, near the town of Balasore, to claim the bodies of their loved ones, a journey that had been complicated by a lack of train service. The tracks were not restored until late Sunday. |
| Officials said the majority of the bodies remained unidentified on Sunday. The death toll was revised down from at least 288 after officials said that some victims had been counted twice. |
| More than 1,100 people were injured in what officials in a preliminary government report described as a “three-way accident” involving two passenger trains and an idled freight train. |
| The disaster cast a pall over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to modernize India’s infrastructure, which he has made central to his campaign for a third term. |
| Here are the latest developments: |
| • India’s railway minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, told reporters at the scene of the crash on Sunday that investigators were looking at why the electronic signal system used to prevent accidents did not work as intended. He said that service on the line was expected to resume by Wednesday at the latest. |
| • Jaya Varma Sinha, an Indian Railways official, said at a news conference that a passenger train traveling at around 80 miles per hour had crashed into a freight train carrying iron ore. Within “a fraction of second,” another passenger train traveling at a high speed on a separate track crossed the collision site, Mr. Sinha said. |
| • About 200 of the people killed in the disaster remained unidentified on Sunday, doctors and officials said. Bodies were being stored at the main hospital in the state capital of Bhubaneswar, as well as in Balasore, at a small school and at a makeshift mortuary in a business park. |
| • The disaster renewed longstanding questions about safety in a rail system that transports more than eight billion passengers a year. While India reports far fewer serious rail accidents than it did in decades past, the amount spent on basic track maintenance and other measures has been falling in recent years. |
| • Survivors of the crash said their train was packed with hundreds of migrant laborers, students and daily wage workers who were shoulder to shoulder in at least three general compartments — with most of them standing — when the trains collided. “It was full of people,” said Sayel Ali, who was admitted to a hospital near the site of the crash. |
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