At least seven people were killed and 30 hospitalised after “illegal interference” caused a bridge to collapse and a train to derail on the Russian side of the Ukraine border, Russian authorities said early on Sunday.

The train’s locomotive and several cars derailed “due to the collapse of a span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the operation of transport,” Russian Railways said on the Telegram messaging app.

Two children were among those in hospital, one of them in a serious condition, Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, said on Telegram. Among those killed was the train driver, Russia’s state news agencies reported, citing medics.

Russia’s ministry of emergency situations said on Telegram that its main efforts were aimed at find

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