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Express Tribune
08-08-2025
- General
- Express Tribune
At least 30 injured after train derails in southern Iran
A file image shows a train after derailment is seen near Tabas, Yazd province, Iran June 8, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS Listen to article A train derailed in the southern Iranian province of Kerman on Friday, injuring more than two dozen people though no deaths were reported, according to local media. "Thirty people were injured when a train derailed on the Kerman-Zarand railway path," Babak Mahmoudi, head of the Red Crescent Society's Relief and Rescue Organization, told the Mehr news agency. A statement from the public relations office of the national railway body carried by the Tasnim news agency reported that after "the timely arrival of railway technical personnel and rescue forces, all passengers safely exited the train". Read More: Pakistan, Iran set $10b trade target Train derailments are not uncommon in Iran, and while they do not generally result in deaths, there have been fatal disasters in the past. In June 2022, 21 people were killed and dozens injured when a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas after hitting an excavator beside the track. In 2016, two trains collided and caught fire in northern Iran, killing 44 people and injuring scores.
L'Orient-Le Jour
08-08-2025
- General
- L'Orient-Le Jour
30 injured as train derails in Iran's south
A train derailed in the southern Iranian province of Kerman on Friday, injuring more than two dozen people, though no deaths were reported, according to local media. "Thirty people were injured when a train derailed on the Kerman-Zarand railway path," Babak Mahmoudi, head of the Red Crescent Society's Relief and Rescue Organization, told the Mehr news agency. A statement from the public relations office of the national railway body carried by the Tasnim news agency reported that after "the timely arrival of railway technical personnel and rescue forces, all passengers safely exited the train." Train derailments are not uncommon in Iran, and while they do not generally result in deaths, there have been fatal disasters in the past. In June 2022, 21 people were killed and dozens injured when a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas after hitting an excavator beside the track. In 2016, two trains collided and caught fire in northern Iran, killing 44 people and injuring scores.
