The crash of a Turkish train kills at least 10

ISTANBUL – Ten people were killed and 73 wounded when a train pulled out of the tracks in northwestern Turkey on Sunday after heavy rains caused a landslide, Turkish media reported . Istanbul, when five cars came out of circulation, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement

TV footage showed several wagons lying on the side and emergency personnel walking to reach the place of the Accident

He told the CNN Turk television channel that he had seen a lot more than 10 bodies.

A statement from the Prime Minister's Office revealed that the train had an accident after a landslide. "Unfortunately, we have dead and wounded," he said. The local governor of Tekirdag, about 120 kilometers west of Istanbul, attributed heavy rains to the derailment.

"Our helicopter ambulances have reached site," said Governor Mehmet Ceylan. "Many of those injured have been removed from the site."

The office of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he had received information from the ministers of transport and the interior about the accident and that he had sent his condolences to the victims .