New Delhi: An official probe into the Rajdhani train mishap in Rafiganj in Bihar last month has found that "sabotage" was the cause of the accident that claimed over 100 lives.

The provisional findings of the preliminary report of the Commissioner of Railway Safety, which probed the September 9 accident involving the Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express ascribed the mishap to "sabotage", an official release said on October 3.

The statutory inquiry was conducted by the Commissioner of Railway Safety Commissioner, (Eastern Circle-Kolkata), Mahesh Prasad.

In the accident 116 people died and 154 others were injured, including 51 seriously, when 12 bogies derailed, five of them from a century-old bridge over Dhawa river.

PTI