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Pictures shared on social media showed several tank carriages
laying on their side and dark grey smoke billowing into the air
at the site of the derailment in the Bryansk region.
Russian Railways, the country's rail operator, said the incident
occurred at 10:17 Moscow time (0717 GMT). It said the locomotive
and seven freight wagons were derailed and the locomotive caught
fire.
"An unidentified explosive device went off at the 136-kilometre
mark on the Bryansk-Unecha railway line, derailing a freight
train," Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz said in a post on his
Telegram channel.
Russian authorities say the region - which borders both Ukraine
and Belarus - has seen multiple attacks by pro-Ukrainian
sabotage groups in the 14 months since Russia invaded. On
Saturday, the governor said four civilians died after Kyiv
shelled a village just across the border.
The site of the incident, as indicated by the governor, is
around 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of Russia's border with
Ukraine.
He did not say who was responsible for the attack.
Separately, the governor of Russia's Leningrad region near St.
Petersburg said a power line had been blown up overnight and an
explosive device found near a second line.
Governor Alexander Drozdenko posted photos of destroyed power
lines and metal supports on his Telegram page on Monday morning.
He said Russia's FSB federal security service was working on the
site, and did not say who he believed was responsible for the
incident.
(Reporting by Jake Cordell; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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