the Accident occurred at approximately 06: 30 am local time, at the station Marsandiz in the city’s western parts. High-speed train, shall first have collided with a förarlöst rail vehicles carrying out inspections of the railway track and then crashed into a road bridge.
Pictures from the scene show the train cars that have has been destroyed in the accident, and the parts of the bridge that collapsed over the train. A large number of rescue workers were called to the scene to get people out of the wreck and bring the wounded to the hospital.
According to the country’s minister of transport is nine people dead and nearly 50 injured. Three of the dead are a driver.
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the Train was on the way between Ankara and the province of Konya and is reported to have had 206 passengers on board at the time of the accident.
from the Turkish transport department would inspektionsfordonet in question not having been at the current location, and the prosecutor’s office in Ankara has launched an investigation into the accident, reports CNN Türk.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that the guilty must be punished, and states that three people at the state railway company have already been arrested. They are suspected of negligence.
In July was shaken Turkey by another train crash, when 24 people died after a train between Kapikule and Istanbul are getting out of hand. According to authorities, was due to the accident in that parts of the embankment washed away by the heavily rains.
