Train Car Slips In Russia, 20 People Injured

JAKARTA - The passenger train skidded on the Komi region in northern Russia and overturned the carriage next to the rail and injured 20 passengers.

The Investigative Committee was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying there were no casualties in incidents outside the city of Inta. Nine carriages skidded tracks from a train with 215 passengers.

The governor of the Komi area, Vladimir Uyba, three people were seriously injured including fractures, bruises, injuries and head trauma, reported by Reuters, Thursday, June 27.

The uploaded video shows passengers being evacuated through broken windows before being taken out of the crash site. Several carriages were seen lying on the edge of the rail.

Russian news agencies quoted officials as saying two additional trains and investigators had been dispatched to help evacuate passengers from the area, most of which consisted of forests and swamps.

Officials are examining the safety standards of the affected railway lines. The TASS news agency quoted police as saying flooding recently caused erosion in railroad tracks.

The train is on its way from Vorkuta, a mining town just above the Arctic Circle, to the port of the Novorossiysk Black Sea in southern Russia.

Russian State Railways, quoted by the news agency, said traffic on the route had been stopped.