16 killed, 100+ injured as Moscow Metro carriages derail in rush hour

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16 people have been killed and 150 injured as several subway cars derailed on the Moscow Metro on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya dark blue Metro line on Tuesday morning.

 

“There are so far 16 [dead],†Vladimir Puchkov, the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry (Emercom) told journalists.

“One hundred and twenty people have sought medical help, 106 were taken to hospital. About a half of them are seriously injured,†Golukhov told ITAR-TASS.

 

The driver of the train is among those dead, according to a source in the Moscow Metro.

 

The accident happened during the morning rush hour when the train was packed with passengers.

 

The first carriage of the train sustained most of the damage, according to an eyewitness of the accident who spoke to RT. Ivan, said he was in the second car when the train suddenly braked and the lights went off. 

 

“I was tossed up in the air,†the young man says. “There was blood on the floor, heads bruised, arms broken. Panic broke out.â€

 

PHOTO: Driver of crashed Moscow Metro train among others trapped inside carriage

 

Ivan also says after the train derailed there was a flash and then the tunnel was filled with thick smoke. 

 

“The car was badly damaged. We started to get out. We saw a door in the tunnel’s wall. Men eventually broke that door and we saw workers, constructing a parallel tunnel. They helped us to get out.â€

Members of the emergency services carry an injured passenger outside a metro station following an accident on the subway in Moscow July 15, 2014. (Reuters / Sergei Karpukhin)

 

 

About seven people reportedly remain trapped in one of the train carriages.

 

Attempts are being made to try and evacuate the stricken passengers, who are stuck in a tunnel between Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulvar stations, in the west of Moscow.

 

There are some seriously injured people, according to preliminary reports. Doctors and rescue workers have deployed stretchers down the tunnel for their evacuation.

 

News of the derailment was preceded by reports of smoke detected on the dark blue line of the Moscow Metro. Later, Moscow’s emergencies agency denied reports of smoke and said a sudden failure in the electricity supply to a conductor rail could have caused the accident.

 

 

The Investigative Committee (IC) has launched a criminal case over ‘violation of transportation security demands’, according to interim head of the Moscow’s Western District Department of the IC, Roman Syomushkin.

 

source: RTnews.com

[TheOfficialPimpwife]

is the world coming to an end or wah,damnnnn

[Skibop!!]

tf that's crazy 

Reminds me of a train crash we had here back in 09

[Pluvio]

Reminds me of the ending sequence of Final Destination 3, which I thought would never happen in real life since it had an extremely slim chance of it doing so. Apparently not.

 

Rest in peace to those who were deceased and my thoughts go out to their families.