Explosions caused two bridges to collapse and derailed two trains in western Russia in a single day, officials mentioned on Sunday (June 1, 2025), with out saying what had caused the blasts. In one of many incidents, seven people were killed and dozens were injured.
The first bridge, in the Bryansk area on the border with Ukraine, collapsed on prime of a passenger practice on Saturday, inflicting the casualties. The practice’s driver was amongst these killed, state-run Russian Railways mentioned.
Hours later, officials mentioned a second practice derailed when the bridge beneath it collapsed in the close by Kursk area, which additionally borders Ukraine.
In this photograph launched by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service telegram channel on Sunday, June 1, 2025, emergency workers work at a broken bridge in Russia’s Bryansk area, which borders Ukraine.
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In that collapse, a freight practice was thrown off its rails onto the street under because the explosion collapsed the bridge, native performing Gov. Alexander Khinshtein mentioned Sunday. The crash sparked a fireplace, however there were no casualties, he mentioned.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s prime legal investigation company, mentioned in a press release that explosions had caused the 2 bridges to collapse, however didn’t give additional particulars. It mentioned that it could be investigating the incidents as potential acts of terrorism.
Rescue employees cleared particles from each websites, whereas a few of these injured were transported to Moscow for remedy. Photos posted by authorities companies in Bryansk appeared to present practice carriages ripped aside and mendacity amid fallen concrete from the collapsed bridge. Other footage on social media was apparently taken from inside automobiles on the street that had managed to keep away from driving onto the bridge earlier than it collapsed.
Damage to railway tracks was additionally discovered Sunday by inspectors engaged on the road elsewhere in the Bryansk area, Moscow Railways mentioned in a press release. It didn’t say whether or not the injury was linked to the collapsed bridges.
In the previous, some officials have accused pro-Ukrainian saboteurs of attacking Russia’s railway infrastructure. The particulars surrounding such incidents, nonetheless, are restricted and can’t be independently verified.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence, recognized by the Ukrainian abbreviation GUR, mentioned Sunday {that a} Russian navy freight practice carrying meals and gasoline had been blown up on its method to Crimea. It didn’t declare the assault was carried out by GUR or point out the bridge collapses.
The assertion mentioned Moscow’s key artery with the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia area and Crimea has been destroyed.
Russia forces have been pushing into the area of Zaporizhzhia in japanese Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russia took Crimea and annexed it in 2014.
Published – June 01, 2025 03:14 pm IST
