Russia: Freight train derails as railway bridge collapses, 2nd in 24 hrs

A freight bid locomotive and 3 of its bare cars derailed connected Sunday aft a railway span collapsed successful Russia's Zheleznogorsk territory of the Kursk region, marking the 2nd specified incidental successful nether 24 hours. 

The acting politician of the region, Alexander Khinshtein, reported that the illness occurred connected the 48th kilometre of the Trosna-Kalinovka highway.

"Tonight, connected the 48th km of the Trosna-Kalinovka road successful the Zheleznogorsk District, a span collapsed erstwhile a freight bid was crossing it. Part of the bid fell down onto a roadworthy located nether the bridge," Khinshtein stated connected his Telegram channel.

He added that the locomotive caught fire, but exigency effect teams from the Ministry of Emergency Situations rapidly contained the blaze. The remainder of the bid remains connected the railway platform.

According to preliminary information, 1 of the train's drivers sustained limb injuries.

Authorities person suspended postulation connected the roadworthy underneath the collapsed span arsenic a precaution.

This incidental comes soon aft a abstracted derailment precocious Saturday successful Russia's Bryansk region, wherever a rider bid plunged disconnected the tracks pursuing different span collapse.

The rider bid was travelling from Moscow to Klimov erstwhile it derailed successful the Vygonichskyi district.

At slightest 7 radical were killed and 69 others injured successful that crash, Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz confirmed.

The train's locomotive operator was among the deceased, according to Russian authorities media, citing aesculapian sources.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that astir 180 unit were deployed to the Bryansk tract to assistance with rescue efforts and to hunt for immoderate remaining victims.

Authorities person cited "illegal interference" arsenic the apt origin down the Bryansk derailment.

Reports from the Baza Telegram channel, known for sourcing accusation from Russian instrumentality enforcement and information services, suggested that preliminary findings indicated the span mightiness person been deliberately blown up.

However, nary factual grounds has yet been provided to enactment this claim.

The Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions person often travel nether cross-border shelling, drone strikes, and covert operations from Ukrainian territory since the opening of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

(This communicative was taken from a syndicated provender and was lone edited for benignant by Gujarat Samachar Digital team)