Explosions caused two bridges to collapse and derailed two trains in western Russia, officials said, without saying what had caused the blasts. In one of the incidents, seven people were killed and dozens were injured.

A bridge collapsed in Russia's Kursk region while a freight train was passing over it, the acting governor of the Russian region bordering Ukraine said on the Telegram messaging app. Initial details said one of the locomotive drivers was injured,

A railway bridge collapsed in Russia's Kursk Oblast on the morning of 1 June 2025, derailing a freight train. Source: Alexander Khinshtein, Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast, on Telegram Details: The collapse occurred overnight on the 48th kilometre of the Trosna-Kalinovka highway in the Zheleznogorskyi district as a freight train was passing over it.