May 6, 2008
BANGKOK - One man was killed and 30 people were injured when a passenger train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed in southern Thailand, hospital and state railway officials said Sunday.
The train was heading north from business hub Hat Yai in Songkhla province to Phatthalung province when it jumped off the rails Saturday evening.
"The train had just left Hat Yai when it derailed. It was a passenger train carrying local people," said a railway official who declined to be named or to provide potential causes of the accident.
Police were not immediately available for comment.
An official at Hat Yai's main hospital told AFP that 14 of the wounded were admitted to the facility, where one man died of his injuries.
There was no indication that rebels were responsible for the accident.
