The number of people injured in a train collision near Murmansk has risen to 27

The number of people injured in the collision of two trains in the Murmansk region has risen to 27. This was reported on December 19 by Deputy Governor, Minister of Health of the region Dmitry Panychev.

"At the moment we have 27 victims, it is 22 adults and five children. One, unfortunately, a fatal case," TASS quoted him as saying.

He specified, among all the victims, five are children, and another 22 people are adults. All were hospitalized in various central district hospitals.

Freight and passenger trains collided in the Murmansk region. Main

Earlier in the day it was reported that the number of victims in the collision of passenger and freight trains in the Murmansk region rose to 21, three of them - children.

Prior to that, Assistant Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Alexei Kuznetsov reported about 17 victims of the collision, including three minors. According to him, three of the injured are in serious condition, the rest - in a state of average severity. Kuznetsov specified that 13 victims have already been taken to hospitals and are being examined, ambulance crews are transporting four more people. Governor of the Murmansk region Andrei Chibis also published a list of 15 hospitalized victims.

Thecollision of the two trains occurred earlier in the day at the arrival of a passengertrain at Knyazhaya station in the Murmansk region. A passenger train traveling on the Murmansk - St. Petersburg route collided with a freight train. As a result of the collision, three cars of the passenger train and several freight cars derailed.

At the time of the accident in the passenger train were 326 people, including pupils of children's sports school boxing from Severomorsk. It was noted that the children and the coach were not injured. The press service of Russian Railways reported that one of the victims died in the ambulance. Her identity is being established.

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"). The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, then demanded a report on the progress of the investigation.

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