According to preliminary data, there are no RA citizens among victims and injured in Nevsky express derailed train, press secretary of RA Embassy in Russia Gevorg Minasyan told NEWS.am. He said that there were three passengers with Armenian surnames — Dertsakyan, Babayan, Myasnikov. They might be Armenian by origin, having RF citizenship.

Minasyan stated the embassy did not manage to clarify whether three mentioned passengers were injured. However, it became clear that Dertsakyan was in the first carriage. Precise information will be available by Monday as currently the situation in the emergency zone is tensed.

November 27, 2009 at 9:30 p.m. Moscow time a train derailment killed 30 passengers and wounded 90 others in Novgorod Region, Russia. Four cars of Nevsky express train travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed near the village of Uglovka.