At least seven killed & dozens injured after bridge collapses and crushes passenger train in Russia

AT least seven people have been killed and dozens are injured after a bridge collapsed onto railway tracks in Russia.

Several heavy trucks came crashing down on a moving passenger train coming from Moscow, causing it to derail in the Bryansk region.

Russian rescuers working at the site after a bridge collapsed on a passenger train

At least 69 people have been injured so far as rescuers continue to work at the scene.

Just hours later, a second bridge collapsed in Russia’s Kursk region while a freight train was passing over it – leaving the driver injured.

Russian authorities have blamed “illegal interference”; for both incidents.

Later in the night, another explosion reportedly ripped through a military logistics train in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region.

Ukraine today put out a statement claiming it had targeted the military train with fuel tankers, causing it to derail and blow up.

The statement read: “The ‘Freight Train’ was moving towards temporarily occupied Crimea.

“As a result of an explosion on the railway track, the train with fuel tanks and freight cars derailed.

“The key logistical artery of Muscovites in the occupied territories othe f Zaporizhia region and Crimea was disrupted.”;

Some Russian telegram channels – without any evidence – said the bridge in Bryansk was “blown up”;.

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