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Sixty hurt in Russian train derailment


    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sixty people were injured when a train derailed near Russia's border with China on Thursday, Russia's emergency services ministry said.

    "More than 60 people have been taken for medical treatmentfrom the scene of the accident," a ministry statement said.

    Ten carriages of the train derailed. It was carrying 384people at the time, the statement said.

    Russian state television showed debris at the scene of thederailment in the Amur region and ambulances heading to thesite. The cause of the derailment was unknown, officials said.

    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on theemergencies and transport ministries to "provide prompt medicalassistance to victims and take measures to identify the causesof the accident".

    Russian news agencies reported that Vladimir Yakunin, headof state-owned Russian Railways, was flying to the scene tooversee operations.

    In August 2007 a bomb derailed an express train travellingbetween Moscow and St Petersburg, overturning carriages andinjuring dozens of passengers. Russia later opened a terrorisminvestigation.

    (Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by RobertWoodward)