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June 01, 2025
Several heavy trucks and cars came crashing down on a moving passenger train to Moscow after a bridge collapsed onto the railway tracks in the Bryansk region.
At least 69 people have been injured so far as rescuers continue to work at the scene.
Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz said seven people were killed and two people, including a child, were seriously injured when the bridge collapsed at 10.50pm local time.
At 3am local time, a second bridge collapsed in Russia's Kursk region while a freight train was passing over it.
Kursk region governor Alexander Khinshtein said: "Last night in the Zheleznogorsk district, a bridge collapsed while a freight locomotive was passing. Part of the train fell onto the road below the bridge.
"One of the locomotive drivers suffered leg injuries, and the entire crew was taken to hospital."
Russian investigators said they believed that "explosions" had caused two bridges in the border regions of Kursk and Bryansk to collapse overnight.
They added that the bridge collapses in both regions are being investigated as terror attacks.
The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin received reports throughout the night on the collapse of two bridges.
Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the president was kept up to date about the collapse in Kursk and Bryansk by the Federal Security Service and the Emergency Ministry.
Later in the night, an explosion reportedly ripped through a military logistics train in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region.
Ukraine's military intelligence GUR today said that the explosion had derailed a Russian military train hauling cargo and fuel trucks near the settlement of Yakymivka in the region.
The agency did not claim responsibility or attribute the explosion to anyone - though Ukraine has in the past claimed a series of attacks on military targets deep into Russia.