60 injured in train derailment in Russia

MOSCOW, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Sixty people were injured when a passenger train derailed in the Amur Region in Russia's Far East, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday.

"The condition of six of the injured is serious. We are continuing to evacuate people from the train. There are no reports of fatalities," a spokesperson for the ministry was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying.

Ten tail coaches of the train No. 326 en route from Neryungri to Khabarovsk swerved off the rails and got overturned near the Shimanovsk railway station in the Amur Region at 8:07 a.m. Moscow time (0407GMT) on Thursday, according to the ministry.

Rescuers and an increasing number of ambulance teams are currently at work at the scene of the incident.

There were 410 on the train. Passengers are being evacuated and brought to Shimanovsk by 20 buses. Temporary accommodation stations have been set up.