28.07 Locomotive Crashes Into Passenger Train in Almaty; 50 Injured
ALMATY, Kazakhstan Some 50 people were injured on Sunday when a locomotive crashed into a passenger train at a station in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, the countrys Transportation Prosecutors Office said after opening a criminal case into the incident.
The locomotive, which was pulling an empty passenger train around the station, reportedly slammed into the other train on Track 4 of station Alma-Ata-2 around 6 p.m. local time.
Four people, including one passenger, were hospitalized with various injuries. About 50 other people received minor injuries and declined to be hospitalized, the prosecutors office said in a statement, adding that a criminal case had been opened into a violation of the use of means of railway transportation.
