MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. Several passenger train cars derailed near the Bryandino railway station in the Ulyanovsk Region in the Volga area, the Russian Railways (RZD) reported.
According to preliminary data, seven people, including a child were injured in the derailment of the Chelyabinsk-Moscow passenger train in the Ulyanovsk Region.
TASS has gathered key facts about the passenger train incident in the Ulyanovsk Region.
Emergency situation
- Seven rail cars of passenger train No. 302 bound for Moscow from Chelyabinsk derailed near the Bryandino station in the Ulyanovsk Region at 6:26 a.m. Moscow time on April 3, RZD reported.
- According to available information, the eight-car train was carrying 415 passengers.
- The rail cars flipped over on their side when the train derailed, a spokesman for the emergency services told TASS.
- Passengers got out of the rail cars through the windows, he specified.
- Six out of seven derailed train cars overturned, he said.
- Emergency response teams, Emergencies Ministry units and three recovery trains have been sent to the scene of the incident.
- Firefighting and rescue units are working at the site of the train derailment in the Ulyanovsk Region, the regional branch of the Emergencies Ministry reported.
- Over 100 emergency response staff and 32 pieces of equipment are operating at the scene.
- Additionally, a train with two rail cars that can accommodate 150 people has left for the scene of the incident from the Ulyanovsk-Central terminal.
- Two trains and buses have been dispatched to the derailment scene in the Ulyanovsk Region to evacuate people, the Emergencies Ministry reported.
- A temporary accommodation center for passengers of the derailed train is being set up at the school of the village of Bryandino in the Ulyanovsk Region, the regional unified on-duty dispatcher service told TASS.
Injuries
- According to preliminary data, seven people, including a child were injured in the incident, the press office of the Ulyanovsk Region’s Health Ministry reported.
- An emergency medicine ambulance team and two ambulance teams have gone out to the train derailment scene in the Ulyanovsk Region, the press office of the regional Health Ministry told TASS. The Health Ministry reported later that it had decided to send four more ambulance teams to the scene of the incident.
- Also, four ambulance teams of the Federal Biomedical Agency have gone out to scene to render assistance to passengers of the derailed train, it said.
- Additional hospital beds will be organized at Clinical Hospital No. 172, the nearest to the scene of the incident, to receive those injured in the train derailment.
- A medical examination point for passengers of the Chelyabinsk-Moscow train will be set up at the Ulyanovsk-Central railway terminal, RZD said on Telegram.
- There are no fatalities in the train derailment in the Ulyanovsk Region, RZD said.
- According to preliminary information, two people sustained fractures and another 20 suffered bruises, Chelyabinsk Region Governor Aleksey Teksler said.
- One of those injured sustained a fracture of his leg and the other suffered a fracture of his collarbone, he specified.
- On-duty medical service has been organized at the Ulyanovsk railway terminal to examine passengers of the derailed train upon their arrival, the Health Ministry reported.
- Additional hospital beds have been allocated at healthcare institutions of the Ulyanovsk Region in the wake of the train derailment, Governor Aleksey Russkikh said.
- Children have not sustained serious injuries in the train derailment near Ulyanovsk, the press office of the Chelyabinsk Region governor told TASS. A child with a suspected broken arm was rendered first aid assistance, it said.
Response
- An emergency response point has been set up under the direction of RZD Head Oleg Belozerov.
- Ulyanovsk Region Governor Aleksey Russkikh said on his Max channel that he had arrived at the scene of the train derailment.
- The governor is in touch with the RZD management and emergency response services after the train derailment.
- The Transport Prosecutor’s Office has launched a probe after the passenger train derailment in the Ulyanovsk Region, its press office reported.
- A probe has been launched to check compliance with the legislation on railway transport safe traffic and operation, it said.
- The Ulyanovsk transport prosecutor has gone out to the scene of the incident.
- Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal probe into the train derailment on counts of crimes stipulated in article 263 of the Criminal Code ("Violation of the Rules of Railway Transport Safe Traffic and Operation").
- Passengers of the derailed train are entitled to compensation payouts from SOGAZ insurance company, RZD reported.