Derailment takes 10 lives

AT least 10 people were killed and more than 70 injured when a passenger train derailed in northwestern Turkey, Turkish authorities said.

Five of the train’s six cars derailed in a village in Tekirdag province after “the ground between the culvert and the rail collapsed” due to heavy rains, the Ministry of Transport said.

The train was heading to Istanbul from Edirne, on the border with Greece, with 362 passengers and six crew members on board, the transportation ministry said.

Video footage captured overturned cars and people being stretchered away.