{"id":15041,"date":"2025-06-01T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2025-06-01T14:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T13:29:51","slug":"russia-train-crash-bridge-collapse-kills-7-injures-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/europe\/russia\/russia-train-crash-bridge-collapse-kills-7-injures-30\/2025\/06\/01\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia train crash: Bridge collapse kills 7, injures 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KURSK, June 1(<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/emergencies\/1966543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASS<\/a>) &#8211; The locomotive and three empty cars of a freight train derailed after a railway bridge collapsed in the Zheleznogorsk District of the Kursk Region on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash-696x444.jpg 696w, https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash-659x420.jpg 659w, https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail-Crash-600x382.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight, on the 48th km of the Trosna-Kalinovka highway in the Zheleznogorsk District, a bridge collapsed when a freight train was crossing it. Part of the train fell down onto a road located under the bridge. The locomotive caught fire \u2014 the Emergencies Ministry quickly localized it. The remaining trains are on the railway platform,&#8221; the acting governor of the bordering Russian region, Alexander Khinshtein, reported on his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Hinshtein\/12107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram\u00a0<\/a>channel.<\/p>\n<p>One of the train\u2019s drivers had his legs injured in the incident, Khinshtein said, citing preliminary information.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic has been suspended on the motor road beneath the railway bridge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KURSK, June 1(TASS) &#8211; The locomotive and three empty cars of a freight train derailed after a railway bridge collapsed in the Zheleznogorsk District of the Kursk Region on Sunday. &#8220;Tonight, on the 48th km of the Trosna-Kalinovka highway in the Zheleznogorsk District, a bridge collapsed when a freight train was crossing it. Part of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2480,8273],"tags":[213,4426],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rail_Crash.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15044,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions\/15044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}