DHAKA: At least four people were killed and 15 injured on Tuesday after parts of a freight train derailed and collided with a passenger train south of Moscow.

The emergencies ministry said, reports The Times of India.

The ministry said the accident occurred at 1:00pm local time (0900 GMT) near the town of Naro-Fominsk, about 80 kilometres southwest of Moscow, as the passenger train was travelling from the Russian capital to Moldova’s capital Chisinau.

Russian news agency RIA-Novosti quoted an emergency ministry official on site as saying the number of dead had risen to five.

Russian Railways said in a statement that 16 wagons of the freight train had derailed, damaging at least two carriages of the passenger train.

BDST: 1705 HRS, MAY 20, 2014