Gladkov announced the suspension of train traffic due to the derailment of freight cars

The movement of suburban trains in the Belgorod region was suspended after the departure of the freight train. This was announced by the Governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

“15 railway cars have derailed. They were empty. Workers injured Russian Railways and no residents. <...> Due to the emergency, the movement of electric trains and suburban trains was stopped. I hope that Russian Railways employees will quickly cope with the situation and railway communication will be restored,” the governor wrote on his Telegram channel.

Formerly Gladkov toldthat the incident occurred near the railway station, the train was heading to one of the enterprises.

May 21 in Transbaikalia got off 12 wagons of a freight train from the rails on the Kuenga – Priiskovaya stretch. A few days before, on May 18, happened derailment of wagons with grain in the Crimea. According to the Crimean Railway, the derailment of the train was caused by “the intervention of unauthorized persons.”

In early May, similar incidents occurred in the Bryansk region. May 1 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz reported about the convergence of the locomotive of a freight train at the 136th km of the Bryansk-Unecha railway lines due to the operation of an unidentified explosive device. The next day in the region also got off about 20 wagons of a freight train as a result of the detonation of an explosive device.