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#AceBreakingNews – At least 17 people are dead and dozens critically injured after a train in central Iran hit an excavator and partially derailed: Mehdi Valipour, the Iranian Red Crescent’s head of emergency operations, said five of the train’s 11 coaches came off the track in the incident 50 kilometres outside of the central Iranian city of of Tabas at about 5:30am on Wednesday.
Rescue teams across 24 ambulances and three helicopters were called to the remote area, some 550 km south-east of the nation’s capital, and transferred 37 passengers with critical injuries to local hospitals.
“The number of the dead may rise as most of the injured are in critical condition,” emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi said.
The deputy head of Iran’s state-owned railways, Mir Hassan Moussavi, told state media the train was carrying 348 passengers.
It “derailed after hitting an excavator” that was near the track, he said.
The Tabas prosecutor visited the scene as a judicial investigation was launched into the cause of the accident, Iranian media reported.
The incident occurred on the rail that links Tabas to the central city of Yazd.
Iran’s worst train disaster came in 2004, when a runaway train loaded with petrol, fertiliser, sulfur and cotton crashed near the historic city of Neyshabur, killing about 320 people, injuring 460 others and damaging five villages.
Another train crash in 2016 killed dozens and injured scores of people.
Iran has 14,000 kilometres of railway lines.
Its rail system sends both people and goods across the country, particularly in rural areas.
Iran also has some 17,000 annual deaths on its highways, one of the world’s worst traffic safety records.
The high toll is blamed on wide disregard for traffic laws, unsafe vehicles and inadequate emergency services.
Iran, already straining under US sanctions over its collapsed nuclear deal, has been mourning the deaths of at least 41 people killed in a building collapse in the country’s south-west.
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