Ten people were killed while dozens were injured when a Moscow metro train derailed in Moscow during rush hour on Tuesday.
“This is the most serious man-made disaster in the Moscow underground in its entire history,” infrastructure analyst Alexei Khazbiyev told AFP.
Reports said some people are still been stranded in the train underground.
AFP correspondents saw several helicopters and dozens of ambulances at the scene outside Park Pobedy metro station in western Moscow.
Rescuers and paramedics evacuate passengers injured as several subway cars derailed on the Moscow meto on July 15, 2014
A spokesman for the emergencies ministry said in televised remarks that the accident happened when a train braked suddenly after a false alarm.
One of the passengers injured as several subway cars derailed on the Moscow metro on July 15, 2014 speaks by his mobile after being rescued and treated by paramedics
Wreckage is seen at the site of a Boeing 737-500 crash at Kazan airport November 17, 2013 in this handout photograph provided by the Russian Emergencies Ministry. A Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed on landing in the Russian city of Kazan on Sunday, killing all 50 on board and highlighting the poor safety record of Russian airlines that ply internal routes across the world’s largest nation. Best quality from source. REUTERS/Russian Emergencies Ministry/Handout (RUSSIA – Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
A Boeing 737 airliner crashed on Sunday at Kazan, Russia killing all 50 passengers on board.
Flight U363 took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport at 6:25 pm (1425 GMT) and crashed just over an hour later, emergency officials said.
It is said that the plane was 23 years old.
Reuters reported that, flights to and from the airport were halted until midday on Monday.
The son of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Irek, was among those killed in the crash.
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Wreckage is seen at the site of a Boeing 737-500 crash at Kazan airport November 17, 2013 in this handout photograph provided by the Russian Emergencies Ministry. A Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed on landing in the Russian city of Kazan on Sunday, killing all 50 on board and highlighting the poor safety record of Russian airlines that ply internal routes across the world’s largest nation. Best quality from source. REUTERS/Russian Emergencies Ministry/Handout (RUSSIA – Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
An ambulance is seen outside the main building of Kazan airport November 17, 2013. A Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed on landing in the Russian city of Kazan on Sunday, killing all 50 on board and highlighting the poor safety record of Russian airlines that ply internal routes across the world’s largest nation. The Tatarstan airlines flight from Moscow was trying to abort its landing in order to make a second approach, but it exploded on hitting the runway, killing all 44 passengers and six crew on board, emergency officials said. (REUTERS/Yegor Aleev)
Ambulances are seen outside the main building of Kazan airport November 17, 2013. A Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed on landing in the Russian city of Kazan on Sunday, killing all 50 on board and highlighting the poor safety record of Russian airlines that ply internal routes across the world’s largest nation. The Tatarstan airlines flight from Moscow was trying to abort its landing in order to make a second approach, but it exploded on hitting the runway, killing all 44 passengers and six crew on board, emergency officials said. REUTERS/Yegor Aleev (RUSSIA – Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)
The trail of a falling object is seen above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013, in this picture provided by http://www.chelyabinsk.ru. About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms. REUTERS/www.chelyabinsk.ru/Handout
Something like a bright fireball shot across the sky and exploded in Chelyabinsk, central Russia at 9.20 a.m. (12:20 a.m. ET) on Friday injuring more than 500 people.
It left a long white trail in its wake which could be seen as far as 200 km (125 miles) away in Yekaterinburg.
According to a Reuters correspondent, people going to work in Chelyabinsk heard a loud sound like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave in the industrial city 1,500 km (950 miles) east of Moscow.
A wall was damaged at the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, mobile phone networks were interrupted and on Chelyabinsk’s central Lenin Street, windows were shattered and some of the frames of shop fronts buckled.
The Emergencies Ministry said that it was a “meteor shower in the form of fireballs” and the Interior Ministry said that the loud explosion sound was a sonic boom caused by the meteorite explosion.
It said that the background radiation levels were normal so people should not panic.
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said the meteorite was travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second and that such events were hard to predict.
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In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a minivan passes a zinc factory building with about 600 square meters (6000 square feet) of a roof collapsed in Chelyabinsk on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. (AP Photo/Valentin Kazakov)
In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kazakhstan, to Chelyabinsk region, Russia, provided by Nasha Gazeta newspaper, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 a meteorite contrail is seen. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. (AP Photo/Nasha gazeta, http://www.ng.kz)
The trail of a falling object is seen above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, in this view from a residential apartment February 15, 2013. About 400 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia on Friday sending fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows and setting off car alarms. REUTERS/Igor Lyapustin (RUSSIA – Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
Broken windows and debris are seen inside a sports hall following sightings of a falling object in the sky in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013. REUTERS/OOO Spetszakaz
REFILE – QUALITY REPEAT People look at damage to a shop following sightings of a falling object in the sky in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013. A powerful blast rocked the Russian region of the Urals early on Friday with bright objects, identified as possible meteorites, falling from the sky, emergency officials said. REUTERS/Andrei Kuzmin (RUSSIA – Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a meteorite contrail is seen in Chelyabinsk region on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass. (AP Photo/Sergey Hametov)
Ten people were killed while dozens were injured when a Moscow metro train derailed in Moscow during rush hour on Tuesday.
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