{"id":497425,"date":"2022-06-09T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497425"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:15:03","slug":"at-least-17-killed-in-train-derailment-in-central-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/at-least-17-killed-in-train-derailment-in-central-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 17 killed in train derailment in central Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas after hitting an excavator, state media reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seventeen people are dead and 37 injured people have been transferred to hospital,&#8221; emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told state television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of the dead may rise as most of the injured are in critical condition,&#8221; he said, adding that &#8220;24 ambulances and three helicopters have been dispatched to the scene.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tabas is located in South Khorasan province roughly 900 kilometres (560 miles) by road from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy head of Iran&#8217;s state-owned railways, Mir Hassan Moussavi, told the state broadcaster that the train was carrying 348 passengers. It &#8220;derailed after hitting an excavator&#8221; that was near the track, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a train derailed near the central Iranian city of Tabas after hitting an excavator, state media reported. &#8220;Seventeen people are dead and 37 injured people have been transferred to hospital,&#8221; emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi told state television. &#8220;The number of the dead may rise as most of the injured are in critical condition,&#8221; he said, adding that &#8220;24 ambulances and three helicopters have been dispatched to the scene.&#8221; Tabas is located in South Khorasan province roughly 900 kilometres (560 miles) by road from Tehran. The deputy head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}