EghtesadOnline: Parsian Insurance Company, affiliated to Parsian Bank and one of the four major private insurers in Iran, will compensate the victims of Friday’s train crash in the north central province of Semnan, in which tens of people died and many others were injured.

EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani on Friday expressed grief at deaths of passengers and crew in train crash and sought an immediate inquiry to be carried out by First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri about the humanitarian disaster in Semnan.

EghtesadOnline: Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani in a letter to Head of Majlis Development Commission Mohammad Reza Rezaei Kochi urged him to send a committee to the crash scene to investigate the disaster and prepare a report on it.

EghtesadOnline: French Foreign Ministry in a statement on Sunday extended condolences to families of train collision victims in Semnan Province.

EghtesadOnline: In an apology gesture over the tragic collision of two trains in Semnan which claimed the lives of 45 passengers, head of Iran's Railways has resigned.

EghtesadOnline: Technical inquiry is underway to determine the causes of train collision in the northern Semnan province, Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhundi said on Friday.

EghtesadOnline: An official affiliated to Iran's Red Crescent Society (IRCS) declared on Saturday that 45 people have been killed in a train collision in Semnan province.