Twenty people were injured today after several carriages of a train carrying more than 200 passengers derailed in the Russian Far North, local authorities said. The passenger train was traveling from the city of Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, to the port of Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, in the south of the country. It derailed near the town of Inda in Komi Republic, a sparsely populated and bitterly cold region. “There were 215 passengers inside the train. Twenty people were injured, of which three are in a serious condition,” the head of the Komi republic, Vladimir Uyba, said via Telegram. As he stated, only “the tail” of the train derailed. The national railway company, RZD, said via Telegram that according to initial information, the cause of the derailment was “sweeping by water after heavy rains”. Transport accidents are not uncommon in Russia, especially in the remote and isolated areas of this vast country, which has a […]
Source: News Beast
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