SOCHI, July 30 Judoists who were going to competitions in Tuapse helped to get out people from the Kazan-Adler train, whose carriages derailed in the Volgograd region, were told by an employee of a Sochi studio who accompanied the children's group.
On Monday afternoon, on the Gremyachaya-Kotelnikovo section in the Volgograd Region, a Kamaz truck driver drove onto a railroad crossing against a red light and collided with passenger train No. 491 Kazan-Adler. According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, nine train cars derailed and seven cars overturned. There were 803 passengers on the train. About 140 people received abrasions and bruises. Train traffic on the section has been stopped.
There was a group of children from Sochi on the train, who were returning home from a competition under the guidance of curators of a private studio, they were evacuated to a kindergarten in the Volgograd region, their lives are not in danger, the Sochi administration reported. Sochi Mayor Andrei Proshunin clarified that there were 17 children in the group, they were accompanied by four adults.
«At about one o'clock, at lunchtime (it all happened — ed.), we all started to have lunch, someone was lying on the second bunk, I don't remember now. The train turned over, the carriage stood on its edge, we all fell from the bunks onto the floor and rolled down, falling on each other,» the agency's interlocutor said.
She added that several children fell on a mother accompanying a children's group from Sochi during the emergency. «Then they started climbing out the window, the windows were broken from above, there were local residents, probably the first to arrive, and we started climbing out the windows. The judo guys helped us very well, they are such good guys. They were going to Tuapse for a competition. And so our third carriage consisted almost entirely of us — theater-goers, there were 20 of us, and judoists, and there was probably only one family there and that was all, who were going to Adler to relax,» the agency's interlocutor said.
According to her, the children and adults have hematomas, but overall there were no serious injuries.