Three people have died since yesterday derailment of several carriages of a train carrying more than 200 passengers in the Far North of Russia; according to a new report released today by authorities.
Least among the dead
“We found the body of a third person, this is a 16-year-old girl,” the press service of the local branch of the Russian Investigative Committee told the Ria Novosti news agency.
A passenger is missing
Earlier today, the National Railway Company (RZD) highlighted on Telegram that the bodies of two people were found at the scene of the accident and that a passenger was still missing.
The Chronicles
The passenger train traveled from the city of Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in the south of the country. It derailed near the city of Inda in the Komi Republic, a sparsely populated and bitterly cold region.
“There were 215 passengers on the train. Twenty people were injured, three of whom are in serious condition,” the head of the Komi Republic, Vladimir Uyba, said via Telegram yesterday. According to him, only “the tail” of the train derailed.
RZD stressed today that, according to initial information, the derailment may have been caused by the collapse of the tracks due to heavy rain.
Transport accidents are not uncommon in Russia, especially in the remote and isolated regions of this vast country, which has one of the most extensive railway networks in the world.
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