Hockey team coach talks about athletes' help in train wreck

On December 18, the coach of the children's and youth hockey team "Arktika" told "Izvestia" how the hockey players, who were on their way to the Vologda region via St. Petersburg, helped the victims of the train crash in the Kandalaksha district of the Murmansk region.

As indicated by the press service of HC "Arktika" in the social network "VKontakte", the passengers of the first car, injured in the train crash, was a children's and youth hockey team. The guys pulled people out of the overturned cars, helped to search for passengers under the rubble, dragged the victims to warm cars.

"The guys took the initiative themselves and helped people," said Oleg Mudrov, the team's coach.

According to one of the hockey players, the conductors also helped the passengers. At the same time, the athletes themselves did not stand aside and helped those injured in the collision of trains.

"When it all started, we immediately decided not to inform our relatives, so that they would not worry. Me and the guys got dressed, went outside, saw two burned cars, people were screaming. We helped to get one man, carried him to the car. Eight more men we carried to the station, three we carried on the doors, on the bunks. We had to help, I consider it my duty," the athlete emphasized.

Freight and passenger trains collided in the Murmansk region. Main

Earlier in the day when arriving at the station Knyazhaya in the Murmansk region, a passenger train traveling on the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg, collided with a freight train, causing three cars of the passenger train and several freight cars to derail. At the time of the accident in the passenger train were 326 people, one person died. Later it was reported that the number of injured in the collision of trains near the Murmansk region rose to 17.

After the collision of the trains, the transport department of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia initiated a criminal case under Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of the rules of safety of movement and operation of railway transport"). Also, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, demanded a report on the progress of the investigation into the train collision in the Kandalaksha district of the Murmansk region.

"Izvestia" also published footage from the passenger train. They show how people are trying to pass from one carriage to another, but because of the deformation, the doors do not open. At the same time, some passengers can not get to their belongings, as they remained in the affected parts of the train.