A section of Pirot — a town of about 60,000 — has been declared a state of emergency – The 20 carriages of the derailed train were carrying toxic materials from neighboring Bulgaria
A train derailed on Sunday night in the Pirot region of southeastern Serbia, causing an ammonia leak from a carriage.
Pirot, Serbia: A train accident led to ammonia leaking and brought over 50 people to hospital due to poisoning. Ammonia is in the air and the river Nišava. The highway is closed. As will be schools tomorrow.
Nobody will be responsible for this. State capture in practice. https://t.co/msCQvHHhaZ pic.twitter.com/GKeyOEgSOm— Aleksandra Tomanic (@AleksTomanic) December 25, 2022
At least 51 people showed symptoms of poisoning, according to Mayor Vladan Vasic, who added that seven of them were taken to a hospital in Nis.
He pointed out that a part of Pirot — a city of about 60,000 inhabitants — was declared in a state of emergency due to the dispersion of a large amount of ammonia in the atmosphere.
Serbia’s interior ministry appealed to residents in the area not to leave their homes. Traffic was temporarily blocked on several roads after authorities have cordoned off a four-kilometer zone around the scene of the train accident.
The 20 carriages of the derailed train were carrying toxic materials from neighboring Bulgaria, according to state-owned rail freight company Srbija Kargo.
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