2 dead, 140 hurt after Russian train and truck collide

MOSCOW: At least two people were killed and up to 140 people injured when a passenger train carrying 800 people collided with a Kamaz truck, derailing eight carriages, Russian media outlets reported. Some of the carriages lay twisted and battered beside the railway track, they said. The train had been travelling from Kazan in Tatarstan to Adler on the Black Sea when it derailed in the southern Volgograd region near the Kotelnikovo station about 1,200 km south of Moscow, the emergencies ministry said. "Paramedics are on the scene," the ministry said, adding that 324 emergency workers were involved in the operation. Emergency helicopters have also been scrambled, it said. - Reuters