ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Some 50 people were injured on Sunday when a locomotive crashed into a passenger train at a station in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, the country’s Transportation Prosecutor’s Office said after opening a criminal case into the incident.
The locomotive, which was pulling an empty passenger train around the station, reportedly slammed into the other train on Track 4 of station Alma-Ata-2 around 6 p.m. local time.
“Four people, including one passenger, were hospitalized with various injuries. About 50 other people received minor injuries and declined to be hospitalized,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding that a criminal case had been opened into a violation of the use of means of railway transportation.
