Macedonian Train Derails Amid Safety Warnings

No one was injured in the accident, the Ministry of Transport said in a press release on Monday. Officials said that the cause of the derailment was a broken axle on one of the train's cars.

A tragic train crash could happen in Macedonia at any moment because of the drastically worsened safety situation, warned the Union of Mechanical Engineering Staff at the state-owned Macedonian Railways last week.

They urged the state to immediately start providing money for repairs of locomotives and tracks that they claim are not safe.
 
This is the second train accident in the country in the past two weeks. On March 16 eight people were slightly injured when another local train derailed en route from Skopje to the western town of Debar.