Bulgaria: Experts and investigating bodies to establish reasons for train derailment

No people were injured when the Moscow-Sofia train derailed at Kurilo railway station, Western Bulgaria, on Monday morning, engineer Milcho Lambrev, director general of Bulgaria’s National Railway Infrastructure Company, said.

Some 50 passengers, all of them Bulgarian citizens, got off the train and departed for Sofia by a fast train which was traveling behind the international train. Russian citizens – some 15-20 people – were traveling in the last four carriages of the train. A bus arrived to take them to Sofia. Their carriages will be taken to Nadezhda depot for a review and then they will be hooked to the train again, said Lambrev.
The train was running from Moscow to Sofia. When it moved into the entrance railway points at Kurilo station, something happened with the second carriage. The chief of the train staff asked the engine driver to lower the speed of the train, because unusual sound was coming from the second carriage. The engine driver reduced the speed, the train moved into the railway points and constituent parts started falling from that carriage, causing three more carriages to derail. The first carriage and the locomotive moved through the railway point normally, but it seems something happened with the second carriage. The investigating bodies and experts are to establish what exactly happened, explained Lambrev.