Freight train derailed in Russia by 'explosive device'

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MOSCOW, Russia: A freight train derailed Monday in Russia's western region of Bryansk bordering Ukraine after an 'explosive device' detonated on the tracks but caused no casualties, authorities said.

MOSCOW, Russia: A freight train derailed Monday in Russia's western region of Bryansk bordering Ukraine after an 'explosive device' detonated on the tracks but caused no casualties, authorities said. Belarus, a close ally of Russia, said the train was Belarusian and was going from its southeastern city of Gomel to Russia's Bryansk.There have been reports of sabotage on railroads in Russia and Belarus throughout Moscow's more than year-long Ukraine offensive.

Railroad sabotage The state operator said the front locomotive and seven wagons derailed 'after the intervention of unauthorised persons'.'As a result of the incident, the locomotive caught fire,' it said in a statement.The Belarusian transport ministry later said the train belonged to Minsk. 'The train, number 2528, departed from the station in Gomel to Bryansk station,' it said in a statement. It said the explosive device went off '50 metres' from the train.

 

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