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| 7 civilians die in train crash, Russia fingers Ukrainian special services |
| 2025-06-01 |
| "Nobody Understood Anything." What is Known About the Train Crash [RIA] Viktor Zvantsev. In order to get people out of the mangled carriages, rescuers had to cut metal — while emergency services continued to clear the rubble at the site of the passenger train crash in the Bryansk region, two more emergencies on the railway tracks became known. The first reports that passenger train No. 86 Klimov-Moscow had derailed began to arrive at emergency services in the Bryansk region at around 11 p.m. on May 31. Rescuers and ambulance medics who arrived at the scene of the emergency immediately began providing first aid to the victims. An operational headquarters was soon set up, where all information is collected, and a hotline was opened for relatives and friends of the victims of the accident. According to local authorities, almost all representatives of the region's emergency services were thrown into eliminating the consequences of the emergency. First of all, searching for and releasing people. "At first there was confusion, no one understood anything," passengers in the eighth carriage of train No. 86 told RIA Novosti. "Then we saw that the bridge had collapsed. However, we were practically unharmed and immediately began to help each other as best we could. Then emergency services arrived and evacuated us." Those who received serious injuries were immediately taken to the nearest hospitals. The total number was more than 70 people, including a baby. More than half of them are still in different clinics. Moreover, some were sent to Moscow, where the capital's doctors are providing all possible assistance to people. The process is controlled by the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko. He reports personally to President Vladimir Putin. The head of state, according to press secretary Dmitry Peskov, also receives information through the FSB and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The passengers were delivered to Moscow by a reserve train on the morning of June 1. Many were met at Kievsky Station by relatives and friends. Those who arrived were examined by doctors; as a result, 11 people were hospitalized. SEVEN DEAD In the first hour of rescue work, the body of a locomotive engineer was pulled out from under the rubble. After some time, the number of dead increased to seven people. Russian Railways promised to pay 2.2 million rubles each to the relatives of these people as compensation. The department also stated that the train left the tracks due to the collapse of a bridge span on the Ostapovo-Mikhailovsky Rudnik section. According to preliminary data, when the passenger train passed under the road bridge, its supports collapsed and the entire road surface, along with a Miratorg truck that was traveling at that moment, fell on the train. The locomotive and the first two cars took the brunt of the impact. |
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