{"id":8652,"date":"2022-06-08T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8652"},"modified":"2022-06-08T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:13:39","slug":"at-least-10-dead-in-iran-train-derailment-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/at-least-10-dead-in-iran-train-derailment-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 dead in Iran train derailment: state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: At least 10 people were killed in central Iran on Wednesday as a train derailed near Tabas on the line between the cities of Mashhad and Yazd, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen people were killed and a number of others injured in the incident,\u201d national rescue service spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi was quoted as saying by state television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwelve of the injured are in critical condition and have been transferred to hospital,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/businessman-mian-manshas-plane-en-route-to-turkey-escapes-accident.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Businessman Mian Mansha&#8217;s plane en route to Turkey escapes accident<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The deputy head of Iran\u2019s state-owned railways, Mir Hassan Moussavi, told the state broadcaster that the train was carrying 348 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>It \u201cderailed after hitting an excavator\u201d that was near the track, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the train\u2019s 11 coaches came off the track in the 5:30 am (0100 GMT) accident, emergency services said.<\/p>\n<p>The train derailment comes after a tower block collapsed in southwestern Iran last month killing at least 43 people.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, two trains collided and caught fire in northern Iran, killing 44 people and injuring dozens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: At least 10 people were killed in central Iran on Wednesday as a train derailed near Tabas on the line between the cities of Mashhad and Yazd, state media reported. \u201cTen people were killed and a number of others injured in the incident,\u201d national rescue service spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi was quoted as saying by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-8652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}