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Passenger train crashes into rocks on tracks, driver injured 

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A passenger train travelling from Sofia to Burgas on the Sub-Balkan line crashed in the afternoon into rocks that had collapsed on the railway line. One of the drivers was injured, but no passengers were hurt in the accident, which occurred in the area of the Karlovo village of Rozino. The engine and one of the carriages derailed after the impact, the National Railway Infrastructure Company said. The passengers of the train will be transported by buses.



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