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Ten people were killed and 73 injured Sunday in the derailment of a pbadenger train in the Tekirdag region, in northwestern Turkey, the health ministry said. The 360-pbadenger train came from Kapikule on the Bulgarian border and was traveling to Istanbul when six of its cars derailed near the village of Sarilar. "The accident happened because of bad weather conditions," said the governor of the Mehmet Ceylan region.
Recent rains have rendered the muddy areas of the area muddy and the ground may have fallen under the rails. More than 100 ambulances were dispatched to the scene, according to a Health Ministry official, Eyup Gumus, speaking on public TV TRT Haber. The Turkish army, for its part, said in a statement that it sent several helicopters to the accident site. The television footage showed several cars lying on their sides and victims being carried on stretchers.
Erdogan's condolences
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who begins Monday a new five-year term with expanded powers, has was informed of the situation and conveyed his condolences to the victims, according to the state agency Anadolu. Turkey has been working in recent years to modernize its rail network, building several high-speed lines to bring pbadengers back to rail by plane or bus.
The damaged train seemed to be traveling on one of the old single-track railway lines. Several fatal accidents have occurred on the Turkish rail network in recent years. In January 2008, nine people died in a derailment caused by faulty rails in the Kutaha region, south of Istanbul. In July 2004, 41 people 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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