At least 7 dead, 30 injured as bridge summons causing a train disorder in Russia star-news.press/wp

Moscow – the passenger train withdrew in Western Russia late Saturday, killing at least seven people and injured 30, after the bridge crashed for what local officials described as “illegal interference”.

The bridge in the Russian Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, is damaged “as a result of illegal interference in traffic operations”, said Moscow railways in the statement, without elaboration.

Russian Federal Road Transport Agency, Rosavtodor, said that the destroyed bridge crossed above the railroads in which the train was traveling.

Photos published by government agencies from the scene showed that passenger cars took out of the train torn and lie in the middle of the fell of the concrete from the crashed bridge. Other social media shots seemed to take from the inside of other vehicles that quickly avoided the ride on the bridge before it crashed.

Bryansk Regional Gov Aleksandar Bogomaz said the emergency services and government officials worked at the scene. He said that seven people died, and two children were among the 30 injured.

“Everything is done to provide all the necessary assistance to the victims,” ​​he said. Russian officials did not say who was responsible for the Saturday incident, but in the past officials accused the pro-Ukrainian sabolates of the attack on Russian railway infrastructure. However, the details that surround such incidents are limited and cannot be checked independently.

Ukrainian media were reported in December 2023. that the top spy agency Kyiv successfully performed two explosions in the rail line in Siberia that serves as a key water supply plant between Russia and China. Ukrainian security services did not comment on reports.

Russian railroads confirmed one of the explosions that described the Ukrainian media, but did not say what caused. There were no comments from Russian authorities on another explosion.