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Iran train derails after excavator collision, at least 18 dead

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Updated: Jun 8, 2022, 15:51 UTC

DUBAI (Reuters) - Thirteen people died when a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran on Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency said, while 60 passengers were seriously injured.

Iran train derails after excavator collision, at least 18 dead

DUBAI (Reuters) -At least 18 people died and 86 others were injured when a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran on Wednesday, state television reported.

The train, with 383 passengers, was bound for the city of Yazd when it collided with an excavator before going off the rails 50 km (30 miles) from Tabas where it had begun its journey, a railway official told state news agency IRNA.

State TV said five of the train’s 11 carriages had tipped over in the early-morning accident.

Iranian media reported that arrest warrants had been issued for six people, without identifying them or giving details on their alleged crimes.

Jafar Miadfar, head of Iran’s National Medical Emergency Organisation, said on television that so far 18 of the dead passengers had been identified. All but six of the injured had been released from hospital, he said.

President Ebrahim Raisi declared Thursday a day of national mourning.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Michael Georgy, Mark Heinrich and Edmund Blair)

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