A passenger train derailed in Russia's far northern Komi region on Wednesday, overturning carriages next to the railbed and injuring 70 passengers, the region's governor said. According to the report, at least nine boogies overturned. The Investigative Committee, Russia's most important investigating authority, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies that no deaths had occurred in the incident outside the town of Inta. Nine carriages left the rails.
Komi regional governor Vladimir Uyba, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said 20 people were injured, three of whom were in serious condition. A total of 215 passengers had been aboard. News agencies quoted police and emergency services as saying injuries included fractures, bruises, cuts and head trauma.
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Officials were checking the safety standards of the affected rail line. TASS news agency quoted police as saying that recent floods had caused an erosion of the railbed. The train was on its way from Vorkuta, a mining town just above the Arctic Circle, to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in southern Russia.
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