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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, June 1 /Xinhua/ – Bryansk Region Governor Alexander Bogomaz announced on the Rossiya 24 TV channel that a bridge was blown up while a train was moving.
“There was an explosion on the bridge on the highway while the train was moving, which had 388 passengers,” A. Bogomaz said on air.
On Sunday night, a bridge collapsed in the Vygonichsky District of the Bryansk Region. Due to the collapse of the span structure of the automobile bridge as a result of illegal interference in transport activities, the locomotive and carriages of passenger train number 86 on the Klimov-Moscow route derailed.
The regional governor had previously reported seven deaths and 66 injuries. A reserve train has been assigned to transport passengers of train number 86 Klimov-Moscow. –0–