“According to initial reports, the cause of the accident was the lack of a track over a length of approximately two meters,” the governor wrote on Telegram. He added that the driver was forced to apply emergency braking, but he was unable to prevent half of the wagon from derailing. There were 15 people on the train at the time of the accident. One woman suffered a cut to her leg and a contusion to her back. She was hospitalized.
“All emergency services are working at the scene of the incident, including sapper specialists from the Russian Ministry of Defense. The circumstances of the incident and information about the victims are being established,” Gladkov noted. Initially, the regional governor wrote that the lack of track “could have been caused by the detonation of an explosive charge.” He later removed this piece of text, stating that the rails had disappeared due to unspecified “damage.”
Mysterious accidents involving trains
Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, there have been several train bombings in Russia. For example, in the summer of 2025, in the Bryansk Oblast, a bridge collapsed onto a passenger train, killing seven people and injuring over 100. In the Kursk Oblast, a railway crossing collapsed onto a road with a passing freight train, injuring the driver and two of his assistants. Moreover, in June last year, train bombings took place in the Voronezh and Belgorod regions.
