FACTBOX: UAV attack on Moscow-Simferopol passenger train

SIMFEROPOL, June 8. /TASS/. One person was killed and another injured as a result of a Ukrainian UAV attack on the locomotive of a Moscow-Simferopol passenger train.

The train’s passengers were not injured, the head of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, reported on his Telegram channel.

- Sergey Aksyonov, the head of Crimea, reported that one person was killed and another injured as a result of the Ukrainian UAV attack on a locomotive of the passenger train traveling from Moscow to Simferopol.

- He specified that the engineer was injured, while the assistant engineer was killed.

- Scheduled passenger train service in Crimea has been suspended due to the attack, the Grand Service Express carrier reported on its Telegram channel.

- Passengers on all trains in Crimea were evacuated following the attack, Grand Service Express said.

- All passengers on the Moscow-Simferopol train were transported to Simferopol.

- Passengers on trains evacuated due to the attack were transported to their destinations in Simferopol and Sevastopol, Grand Service Express later told TASS.

- The Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office has taken control of the situation following the Ukrainian attack, according to a statement posted on the agency's Telegram channel.

- The Crimean transport prosecutor is coordinating the work of law enforcement agencies and emergency services at the scene.