A passenger and freight train crashed in the vicinity of Murmansk.
Close to Murmansk, three wagons of a double-tier passenger train went off the rails following a crash with a cargo train. Details regarding injured individuals are presently being ascertained. Emergency personnel in addition to multiple ambulance teams have been sent to the location.
As reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations press department on their Telegram channel, three passenger train carriages left the track near Murmansk. Emergency response squads have been deployed to the site. According to the prosecutor’s office, the dislodgement transpired from a crash between a freight train and a passenger train en route from Murmansk to St. Petersburg.
The Russian Railways media office indicated that freight wagons also came off the rails. As per the operator, the impact occurred at 4:15 PM Moscow time at Knyazhaya station. The passenger train had 326 travelers aboard, Russian Railways specified. Train operations on that segment of the railway in the Murmansk region have been halted. Repair trains from Kandalaksha and Kem depots were dispatched to the zone to manage the consequences of the incident.
