Train accident causes deaths in Turkey
At least eight people died after derailment of train.
Accident still left
21 injured.
A railway accident caused the death of eight people and left 21 others injured in western Turkey, in this day 27/01/2008 Sunday.
The accident happened when several wagons descarrilaram by causes still unknown, informed in the press release, quoted by the state agency Anadolu, the company Rail State of the Republic of Turkey.
The train was the line Pamukkale Ekspres, which covers the distance between Istanbul and Denizli, where the tourist enclave of Pamukkale, and suffered the accident in the province of Kutahya, in the west of Turkey.
While not been informed about the identities of the dead, all names of injured belong, for now, the Turkish citizens.
The 21 injured, three of them seriously, were transferred to the State Hospital of Afyonkarahisar.
The Red Crescent indicated in the release that were sent teams to attend the wounded.