By Courtney Mares
Vatican City, Jun 4, 2023 / 06:45 am
Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of a train crash in India that killed at least 275 people.
“I am close to the injured and their families. May our heavenly Father welcome the souls of the deceased into his kingdom,” he said in his Angelus address on June 4.
Hundreds of people were injured in the crash in the Balasore district of Odisha state, India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, according to Reuters.
The crash was caused by an error in a passenger train’s electronic signaling system, which led it to change tracks and hit another train, which derailed. The two trains were carrying 2,296 people in total when they…
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