The derailment happened around 4 a.m. local time in the Van Yen district of Yen Bai province, a region popular with tourists, after the train carrying mainly locals struck earth that had been left by an earlier landslide.
Local media outlets reported that a 55-year-old grandmother and her 9-month-old great-niece were killed in the accident, while the train driver sustained serious injuries. An unknown number of people also sustained injuries, but most of the 462 passengers were safely evacuated.
The locomotive and the first carriage of the train were thrown into a neighboring field as a result of the derailment. Fourteen other carriages also derailed, but did not overturn.
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