At least three people have died in the Russian passenger train disaster

Three people have died in a train derailment in Komi, northern Russia, authorities reported on Thursday.

The Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement that two bodies were discovered earlier this morning at the scene of the passenger train disaster at Vorkuta-Novorossiysk, followed by the body of a third victim, a 16-year-old girl who had been reported missing.

Thirty people were injured in the accident, seven of them critically, according to the Russian Health Ministry. The majority of the 70 injuries that the Russian Railways initially recorded were minor wounds like cuts and bruises.

Nine of the train’s fourteen cars were toppled. There were 232 people on the train, according to Russian Railways.

Although the precise reason of the catastrophe is yet unknown, intense rainfall may have caused the railway embankment to wash away.