The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, announced that the structure of the railway bridge in the Sudzhansky district has partially collapsed. According to available information, no one was injured.
“Today at around 11:20 it was discovered that the bridge structures partially collapsed on the 67th km of the Sudzha-Sosnovy Bor railway. Now the special services are working on the spot to identify the causes of the emergency, ”wrote the head of the region Telegram.
Starovoit emphasized that the railway line is used for the movement of freight trains.
Alexander Bogachev, head of the Sudzhansky district clarifiedThat we are talking about a bridge over the Konopelka river. It is only eight kilometers from the center of Sudzhi and six kilometers from the railway station.
As noted by Russian Railways, the destroyed section was not electrified. “Representatives of law enforcement and the Ministry of Railways are working at the scene. “The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” he said. Online companies.
The state of emergency did not affect the movement of trains in any way.
“An investigative team of experienced forensic experts went to the scene, and a set of necessary verification measures were taken to establish all the circumstances and causes of the incident,” he said. TASS Elena Markovskaya, representative of the Western Interregional Investigation Department of Transport of the Russian Investigative Committee.
Witnesses on social media reportthat they heard the rumble and rumble of an airplane flying at night, the windows of the houses trembling, and a glint could be seen in the sky.
Sudzhansky district borders with the Sumy region of Ukraine. The distance from the Sudzha station to the border is 16 kilometers from Sosnovy Bor – 20 kilometers.
Recent events at the border
Starovoit said the previous day that the Krupets checkpoint in the Rylsky district of the Kursk region is located. shoot on from the mortars. The firing point was quickly suppressed by fire from the border guards and the army. No harm done.
April 25 via the Kursk region shot two Ukrainian planes. The incident occurred at around 04:15 in the village of Borovskoye of Rylsky district. There were no casualties.
On April 23, mortar fire was opened at a checkpoint on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Glushkovsky district in the Kursk region. As a result, the buildings of Rosselkhoznadzor caught fire. There were no victims.
April 11 in the Kursk region was introduced The high terrorist threat was later extended for another two weeks. Residents of the Sudzhansky district suggested not visiting border villages and also avoiding firecrackers, firecrackers and drone launches.
Source: Gazeta
