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BIOCE, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - At least 39 people
were killed when the brakes failed on a train carrying more
than 200 passengers, causing it to jump the tracks and crash
into a ravine in mountainous Montenegro on Monday.
The government said 135 people were injured, 75 of them
children thought to be returning from family ski trips. Trees
slowed the plunge of the front coaches and they came to rest 40
meters (yards) from the river below.
Army and police rescuers climbed down the steep slope in
darkness to reach those trapped, smashing windows to extract
survivors from a coach lying on its side.
"Thirty-nine are dead, 135 are injured," Montenegro Deputy
Prime Minister Miroslav Ivanisevic told a news conference after
an emergency cabinet meeting.
All injured were evacuated by mid-evening and rescuers were
working on the recovery of the last two corpses in the
wreckage.
"The accident occurred because of a failure of the train's
braking system," Interior Minister Jusuf Kalamperovic said.
The local passenger train from the northern city of Bijelo
Polje to the southern port of Bar derailed at Bioce, about 10
km (6 miles) outside the capital, Podgorica.
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Many of the passengers were thought to be families
returning home from skiing trips.
A Reuters photographer at the scene saw corpses lined up on
the ground under blankets. "There were mobile phones going off
constantly all over the crash site among the bushes and the
rocks," he said.
President Filip Vujanovic and Prime Minister Milo
Djukanovic rushed to the crash site in a gorge of the Moraca
river.
"A terrible tragedy happened at Bioce and everything is
being done to reduce the number of casualties as much as
possible," Vujanovic told reporters.
The state declared three days of mourning. Transport
Minister Andrija Lompar and National Railways chief Ranko
Medenica tendered their resignations.
Doctors in the Adriatic republic of 650,000 people appealed
for blood donors as crowds of onlookers and worried relatives
flocked to the main hospital. Some of the injured were taken to
the hospital in the trunks of private cars.
One survivor spoke of people screaming in panic and
lifeless bodies lying on the rocks. He said he was in a
carriage that stayed on the rails inside a tunnel when the
brakes failed.
"We were lucky because of that tunnel," said Ivan Stanic.
"Luckily, I was in the last wagon," he told reporters.
