“At around 9am, I heard a loud noise, like something sliding down from above, followed by two explosions,” said Mitr Intrpanya, 54, who witnessed a train accident in Nakhon Ratchasima province in Thailand, north-east of the capital, Bangkok. “When I went to see what had happened, I found the crane sitting on a passenger train with three carriages.”
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At least 22 people in Thailand were killed and scores injured after a crane collapsed on to a passenger train, derailing it, officials said.
“We are now asking the hospital to say how many people are in critical condition,” Thatchapon Chinnawong, the district police chief, said.
Footage from the scene showed the crane’s broken structure resting on giant concrete pillars, with smoke rising from the wreckage of the train below. The accident happened at a construction site that is part of a $5.4bn project backed by Beijing to build a high-speed rail network in Thailand.
Thailand has about 5,000km (3,107 miles) of railway but the rundown network has long driven people to favour travel by road. Industrial and construction site accidents have long been common in Thailand, where lax enforcement of safety regulations has led to deadly incidents.
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