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Train Derails in Western Russia After Bridge Collapse, Killing at Least 7
A few hours later there was a report of another bridge collapse, also in western Russia, involving a freight train.
A bridge overpass in western Russia collapsed late Saturday, derailing a passenger train underneath and killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, officials and the state news media said.
A second railway overpass also collapsed overnight as a freight train was passing over it, according to an official, but no one died. The episodes took place about 77 miles apart in regions that border Ukraine: Bryansk and Kursk.
The state-run Russian news agency Tass, citing Aleksander Bogomaz, the governor of Bryansk, reported that seven people died as a result of the derailment in that region. Mr. Bogomaz added that 47 people, including three children, were taken to medical facilities.
