According to a source in Russia's emergency services, seventeen people, including three children, were injured when a passenger train collided with a truck.

Axar.az reports citing Sputnik.

According to the initial estimates, ten people, including three children, were injured when a passenger train crashed into a truck in Russia's Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Area in western Siberia, a source from the local emergency services told on Saturday.

"17 people, including three children, have been injured in a crash of a train and a truck in the Nizhnevartovsk district [in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Area]," the source said.

The train, which was reportedly en route from the Black Sea resort city of Adler to Nizhnevartovsk, rammed into the car at a railroad crossing. Sources told that the train was not derailed after the crash.

The rescue operation is underway.