Moldova-bound train crash kills five
Moscow: a train collision near Moscow killed at least five people and left 45 others wounded yesterday, officials said.
The interior ministry said the accident happened when several cars of cargo train derailed and hit a passenger train derailed and hit a passenger train naro-fominsk, a town 50km southwest of the capital Moscow.
The emergency situations ministry said several cars in the passenger train travelling from Moscow to Chisinau, Moldova, then derailed under the impact of the collision, and some of them overturned.
The cause of the accident wasn’t clear. A picture released by the ministry showed one said of the passenger train completely torn away, with passengers emerging from the wreckage.
The emergency headquarters dealing with the train accident said 15 of the wounded were in hospital in a grave condition. AP