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Ten people were killed and 73 wounded on Sunday in the derailment of a pbadenger train in the Tekirdag region of northwestern Turkey, the Ministry of Health said.
The train carrying 360 pbadengers came from Kapikule, on the Bulgarian border, and went to Istanbul when six of his cars derailed, near the village of Sarilar.
"The accident occurred due to bad weather conditions", The governor of the Mehmet Ceylan region said
Recent rains have rendered the surrounding areas muddy and the ground may have dug under the rails.
More than 100 ambulances were dispatched to the scene, according to Ministry of Health official Eyup Gumus, speaking on public TV TRT Haber
The Turkish army, for its part, said in a statement that it had sent several helicopters to the accident site. [19659002] The television pictures showed several cars lying on their sides and victims being carried on stretchers.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who begins Monday a new five-year term with expanded powers, was informed of the situation and Expressed its condolences to the victims, according to the Anadolu State Agency.
Turkey has undertaken in recent years to modernize its rail network, building several high-speed lines to bring back pbadengers preferring air bus transport.
The accident train appeared to be running on one of the old single-track railway lines.
Several fatalities have occurred on the Turkish rail network in recent years.
In January 2008, nine persons died in a derailment caused by faulty rails in the Kutaha region, south of Istanbul.
In July 2004, 41 people were killed were killed and 80 injured in the derailment of a high-speed train in Sakarya province, in the north-west of the country.
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