Passengers told about the moment of the train collision near Murmansk

A passenger of a train that collided with a freight train in the Murmansk region told Izvestia on December 19 that she was miraculously unharmed.

"It was all happening so fast. We didn't realize at first what was happening. We were riding just in the second carriage that crashed, and just in the outermost compartment. The train crashed into the next [car], the restrooms behind us that were. By some miracle we remained unharmed," the interviewee said.

Another passenger shared details of the incident. She said that at the time of the incident, the lights went out, everything around shook, there was smoke and sparks.

"In the end, when the train slowed down, we found that the door to our compartment was torn off, there is no corridor and we are looking down, there is a far ground," the passenger described what happened.

The woman noted that she and her husband were not physically injured, but experienced stress during the incident.

Thecollision of two trains occurred on December 18 at the arrival of a passengertrain at the station Knyazhaya. The passenger train, traveling on the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg, collided with a freight train. As a result of the collision, three cars of the passenger train and several freight cars derailed.

According to the latest data, the accident killed two people, 31 people were injured. The Ministry of Health specifies that 10 victims, including three children, are in serious condition.

Seven victims of the accident were transferred to regional medical centers, five of them are being treated at the regional hospital.

A criminal case under Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was initiated over the accident.