MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to the initial estimates, ten people, including three children, were injured when a passenger train crashed into a truck in Russia's Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Area in western Siberia, a source from the local emergency services told Sputnik on Saturday.
"Ten people, including three children, have been injured in a crash of a train and a truck in the Nizhnevartovsk district [in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Area]," the source said.
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The train, which was reportedly en route from the Black Sea resort city of Adler to Nizhnevartovsk, rammed into the car at a railroad crossing. Sources told Sputnik that the train was not derailed after the crash.
The rescue operation is underway.