The commissioner of railway safety, South Eastern Circle, Shailesh Pathak on Monday visited the signal room and the control room of the Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha’s Balasore, where a triple-train accident killed 275 people on Friday, and interrogated the assistant station manager, who was in charge of the station during the accident.
As part of his preliminary probe into the incident, the commissioner also spoke to the locmotive pilot, Gunanidhi Mohanty, and assistant locmotive pilot, Hazari Behera, of the Coromondel Express, which was involved in the accident, officials familiar with the matter in the South Eastern Railway said.
“The preliminary probe is underway. It will take time.
