Jake
07-07-2013, 10:12 PM
At least 100 people have been injured with 15 in hospital after a passenger train derailed in southern Russia. It’s thought the driver applied the emergency brake after seeing the track had deformed due to heat, a police source said.
11 cars derailed, seven of them overturned, when the 19-car train heading from Novosibirsk in Siberia to the Black Sea resort of Adler came off the tracks in the Kuschevsky district of the southern Krasnodar region.
"According to Caucasus transport prosecutor, Aleksander Ulyanov, eleven cars of the Novosibirsk-Adler passenger train went off rails. The accident took place at 17:10 Moscow time," a spokeswoman for the Southern prosecutor's office told ITAR-TASS news agency.
The Emergencies Ministry said there were no fatalities as a result of the crash, with 15 people, including five children, hospitalized, the rest escaping with minor injuries, according to Emergencies Ministry officials.
RIA-Novosti cites a representative of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine, who said that none of the kids are in critical condition, but three of them suffered head injuries.
The youngest of the hospitalized children is one-and-a-half years old, another is six, with the rest aged between 11 and 13 years.
"In all, 600 people were traveling on the train,” spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry, Tatyana Kobzarenko, told Interfax news agency. “All of them were taken off the train and, with the exception of those hospitalized, delivered to the Oktyabrskaya village.”
A spokesman for the North Caucasian railway told ITAR-TASS that a new train has been assigned to take the passengers of the ill-fortuned train to their destination in Adler.
A police source informed ITAR-TASS news agency that application of the emergency break was considered to be one of the primary causes for the derailment, there’s no indication of terrorism.
“The locomotive driver noticed that the tracks were deformed due to the heat and was forced to apply emergency break,” the source said, adding that “the consequences could’ve been much worth” if this wasn’t done.
A relative of one of the passengers told RT that the crash happened in such a remote area that the emergency workers arrived on the scene only 40 minutes after receiving the distress call.
During that time, the members of the construction brigade, traveling in the last cars, which remained on track, began the rescue mission on their own.
“It was this construction brigade, which evacuated everybody. They made a roll call and put together the list of the passengers,” she said.
The traffic on the line is currently halted, with over a 1000 people and more than 120 specialized vehicles involved in clearing the aftermath of the derailment.
http://rt.com/news/train-derailment-russia-injured-757/
11 cars derailed, seven of them overturned, when the 19-car train heading from Novosibirsk in Siberia to the Black Sea resort of Adler came off the tracks in the Kuschevsky district of the southern Krasnodar region.
"According to Caucasus transport prosecutor, Aleksander Ulyanov, eleven cars of the Novosibirsk-Adler passenger train went off rails. The accident took place at 17:10 Moscow time," a spokeswoman for the Southern prosecutor's office told ITAR-TASS news agency.
The Emergencies Ministry said there were no fatalities as a result of the crash, with 15 people, including five children, hospitalized, the rest escaping with minor injuries, according to Emergencies Ministry officials.
RIA-Novosti cites a representative of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine, who said that none of the kids are in critical condition, but three of them suffered head injuries.
The youngest of the hospitalized children is one-and-a-half years old, another is six, with the rest aged between 11 and 13 years.
"In all, 600 people were traveling on the train,” spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry, Tatyana Kobzarenko, told Interfax news agency. “All of them were taken off the train and, with the exception of those hospitalized, delivered to the Oktyabrskaya village.”
A spokesman for the North Caucasian railway told ITAR-TASS that a new train has been assigned to take the passengers of the ill-fortuned train to their destination in Adler.
A police source informed ITAR-TASS news agency that application of the emergency break was considered to be one of the primary causes for the derailment, there’s no indication of terrorism.
“The locomotive driver noticed that the tracks were deformed due to the heat and was forced to apply emergency break,” the source said, adding that “the consequences could’ve been much worth” if this wasn’t done.
A relative of one of the passengers told RT that the crash happened in such a remote area that the emergency workers arrived on the scene only 40 minutes after receiving the distress call.
During that time, the members of the construction brigade, traveling in the last cars, which remained on track, began the rescue mission on their own.
“It was this construction brigade, which evacuated everybody. They made a roll call and put together the list of the passengers,” she said.
The traffic on the line is currently halted, with over a 1000 people and more than 120 specialized vehicles involved in clearing the aftermath of the derailment.
http://rt.com/news/train-derailment-russia-injured-757/