A family died under the wheels of an electric train in the Minsk region

Photo USC in the MINSK region

May 24, Minsk. A family died under the wheels of an electric train in the Minsk region, Elena Krupenina, official representative of the USC in the Minsk region, told BelTA.

On the evening of May 23, law enforcement agencies received a message that at the Ratomka station in the Minsk region, a man and a child were mortally injured by the Minsk-Vitebsk electric train.

According to the investigation, at about 22.00 on May 23, a 32-year-old man and his 22-year-old pregnant wife ran across the railway tracks along which the electric train was moving, to a prohibitory sound and light signal. In her hands, a woman was pushing a stroller with a one-year-old baby. The family hurried to the train. As a result of a train collision, the father and child died at the scene, the mother received serious bodily injuries, with which she was hospitalized. Despite all the efforts of doctors, on the morning of May 24, the woman died.

An investigative-operational group, employees of the regional investigation worked on the spot. Employees of the railway station, neighbors of the victims were interviewed, the scene of the incident was examined. A number of expert studies have been appointed, the production of which is entrusted to the department of the State Committee for Combating Energy in the Minsk region.

On this fact, the Minsk Regional Department of the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case under Part 3 of Article 314 (violation of traffic safety rules or the operation of railway transport by a person obliged to comply with these rules by virtue of the work performed or the position held, which negligently resulted in the death of two or more persons) UK. All the circumstances of the incident are established.

Investigators remind about the rules of conduct when crossing the railway tracks: do not be near the tracks while intoxicated , do not walk on the tracks and do not sit on the rails, do not use headphones and mobile phones when crossing the tracks, make sure that there is no railway transport in sight . Do not cross the tracks in front of a moving train, do not walk along the railway track closer than 5 m from the outermost rail.