MOSCOW, May 14, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Freight train carriages derailed in the
Russian region of Volgograd, Russian news agencies said on Tuesday, with
"unauthorised persons" accused of causing the incident.

"The derailment of carriages of a freight train occurred at Kotluban station
in the Volgograd region due to the intervention of unauthorised persons,"
according to the TASS news agency.

The incident is the latest in a spate of suspicious fires and derailments on
Russia's rail network.

Russia has blamed previous incidents on Ukraine and its supporters.

In December 2023, Russia arrested a Belarusian man for allegedly placing
explosives on two trains on a key part of a Siberian railway near the Chinese
border on Ukraine's orders.

The arrest came around a week after authorities reported traffic
complications in a tunnel on the Baikal-Amur mainline, some 5,500 kilometres
(3,400 miles) east of Moscow.

In January this year, Russian investigators said two teenagers who set fire
to a railside equipment box in Moscow had been charged with carrying out
sabotage for Ukraine.