At least five people have been killed and about 45 others have been injured in a collision between a cargo train and a passenger train near Moscow SIA reports.
The Russian interior ministry said the accident occurred when several carriages on the cargo train derailed and hit a passenger service near Naro-Fominsk, a town 30 miles south-west of Moscow.
Several carriages on the passenger train derailed under the impact of the collision and some of them overturned, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
Nina Suslonova, the health minister for Moscow region, told the Rossiya 24 news channel that five people were confirmed dead at the site.
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. The passenger train had been travelling from Moscow to Chisinau, Moldova
Dozens of ambulance crews and seven rescue helicopters rushed to the scene to help the victims. The emergency agency dealing with the accident said 15 of the injured are in a critical condition.
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