MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The number of people who died in a railroad accident in Turkey has reached 24, while 338 others were injured, CNN Turk reported on Monday citing Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag.
Several cars of a passenger train traveling from Uzunkopru, Edirne province, to Istanbul went off rails near Sarilar village of Tekirdag’s Corlu district.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already offered his condolences to the families of those killed in the train crash.