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ISTANBUL
At least 24 people were killed and more than 70 were injured on July 8 when most trains derailed in the northwestern Turkey. According to the Turkish Minister of Health, Recep Akdağ, the death toll is 24 on 9 July and the number of wounded is 73, according to the Turkish state agency Anadolu
. in Tekirdağ province after "the soil between culvert and rail collapsed" due to heavy rains
The train was heading to Istanbul from Edirne, on the border with Greece, to Istanbul with 362 passengers and six crew members.
An unidentified survivor told the Demirören News Agency that she had been in one of the cars that left the railroad tracks
"There were dead people immediately people whose legs were crushed, accident, "she said.
A photograph of the site showed the ground collapsed under the rails.
The Ban on the Media
The governor of Tekirdağ, Mehmet Ceyhan, said that the region where the derailment occurred is muddy due to heavy rains and difficult to reach.
Emergency services, military helicopters and ambulance arrived at the scene. The local municipality of Çorlu tweeted that hospitals needed donated blood for the wounded.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Office has announced the publication of a ban on the publication of the accident. that recent privitisations have led to a decrease in the number of "railway guards" who were previously responsible for checking the physical condition of infrastructure to avoid such disasters.
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) sent a parliamentary question to the government in May, asking why the proposals to build new railway bridges between Istanbul and Edirne were canceled.
The government then responded that the plans had been canceled after it was decided that it would not be possible to build the bridges without closing the line for a long time.
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