(Adnkronos) – A passenger train operating between the localities of Razumnoye and Tomarovka in Russia’s Belgorod region derailed due to two meters of missing tracks, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced. The driver was forced to make an emergency stop. And a carriage derailed. A woman was injured. Initially, Gladkov had written that the track interruption was caused by “the explosion of an explosive device,” but he later deleted the post. In any case, bomb disposal experts intervened at the scene of the incident.
Russia, train derails in Belgorod region, governor retracts explosion version