In the Murmansk region of the Russian Federation, the freight train rammed a passenger train: there are victims (video)

14 victims are reported. One woman died in an ambulance. In the Murmansk region of Russia, two trains collided. The accident occurred in the area of ​​the Knyazha Knyaklaksh district station. The cargo warehouse collided with a two-storey passenger train of Murmansk-St. Petersburg. About it reports Russian "Interfax". There were 326 people on the passenger train. Three cars of the passenger train, as well as cargo wagons, came out of the rails. 14 victims are reported.

Another woman died in an ambulance. It was clamped between the wagons. Previously, the cause of the accident was a malfunction of the freight train. A criminal case was initiated on violation of the rules of traffic safety and operation of railway transport (Article 263 of the Criminal Code), the Western Interregional Investigative Directorate for Transport of the SC of Russia reported.

It is also reported that the driver of the freight train was not in place at the time of the accident - he repaired the break of the current. The train stayed on the rails to wait for help. An hour later, he was refused the brakes and he rolled to another track. Those who were planted from a passenger train were already complaining to social networks that the temperature in Murmansk dropped below -34 ° C, and they were not allowed to dress.