- MOSCOW — At least seven people lost their lives, and 30 others were hospitalised
after a railway bridge collapsed, causing a train derailment in Russia's
Bryansk region, which shares a border with Ukraine.
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- Authorities have cited "illegal interference" as
the reason behind the incident, which occurred early Sunday.
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- Russian Railways, in a post on Telegram, stated that the
train's locomotive and several cars derailed "due to the collapse of a
span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the
operation of transport."
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- Bryansk region governor Alexander Bogomaz said two children
were among those hospitalised, with one in serious condition.
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- The locomotive driver was among those killed, according to
Russian state news agencies citing medical sources.
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- The Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Telegram that
around 180 personnel were deployed to the scene, with the primary focus on
locating and rescuing any remaining victims.
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- Reports from Russia's Baza Telegram channel, which
frequently shares information sourced from law enforcement and security
services, suggested that preliminary findings indicated the bridge may have
been blown up.
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- However, the channel did not provide evidence to support the
claim.
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- Since the onset of the war, the Bryansk region -- along with
the neighbouring Kursk and Belgorod regions -- has repeatedly faced
cross-border shelling, drone attacks, and covert incursions from Ukrainian
territory.
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- The train was en route from Klimovo to Moscow when it
collided with the collapsed bridge near a federal highway in the Vygonichskyi
district of the Bryansk region, Governor Bogomaz added.
