The incident occurred at 4am today on a section of railway running through Tan Vinh 1 Hamlet, Xuan Son Nam Commune when the second car's oil tank exploded. This caused an iron bar on the railroad car to fall on the tracks along with a large quantity of oil, damaging nearly seven kilometres of track.
19-cars train stuck at a station in Phu Yen Province
Nguyen Tan Ho, of Tan Vinh 2 Hamlet, said, “I was sleeping when I heard a very loud noise coming from the train. I woke up to that around 4am."
Nearly seven kilometres of track damaged
Broken railroad ties
Railway staff commented that this type of accident is extremely rare in the industry.
Explosion from oil tank in second car
Around four hours after the incident, a rescue train was sent to the scene to pull the train back to the station.
