Seven cars of passenger train No. 302, traveling from Chelyabinsk to Moscow, derailed near the Bryandino station in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region, Russian Railways said.
According to preliminary reports, seven people were injured, RIA Novosti and TASS reported, citing the regional Health Ministry and the Ulyanovsk Disaster Medicine Center. None of the injuries were serious, Interfax reported, citing the governor’s press service, with most passengers sustaining only scrapes and bruises.
The Telegram channel Baza reported that the number of injured had risen to 12. The Telegram channel Shot put the figure at 22.
Chelyabinsk Governor Alexei Teksler later said two passengers had suffered broken bones — one a leg fracture, the other a broken collarbone — while 20 others sustained bruises. The train was carrying 157 people, including 65 children, he said, adding that all passengers had been evacuated from the six overturned cars.
Russian Railways said it had dispatched passenger cars to the scene and that a medical screening point would be set up at the Ulyanovsk-Tsentralny station to assist passengers.
The poor condition of the rail track caused the derailment, the Investigative Committee, Russia’s federal investigating authority, said.
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