Female flight attendants ‘run over by train’ while trying to get on platform

Two female flight attendants d!ed in Moscow after they were unable to climb onto a platform in time to get out of the way of a moving train. The incident occurred on Sunday morning, Dec. 8. 

The women were named Diana Kocharyan, 19, and Agata Belevich, 20 and their de@ths at Nagatinskaya station to the south of central Moscow were later confirmed by Ural Airlines. 

Belevich is reported to have supplemented her income as a nail beautician in Domodedovo, south of Moscow’s city centre. 

A spokesperson from Ural Airlines said: “The airline officially confirms that these are our employees.” 

The statement went on: “We offer our sincere condolences to their families and friends. [This was] an unthinkable tragedy.” 

The airline stressed that the friends had not begun their shift when they were k!lled. 

Diana Kocharyan 

A statement said: “The girls d!ed outside of working hours….and were not in uniform.” 

Both of them were from Kaliningrad but moved to the Russian capital in the summer of this year and found work selling clothes before becoming air stewardesses. 

A report by the pro-Kremlin website MKRU said the women said the women “often spent their free time in nightclubs” and “relaxed in entertainment venues”. The article speculated the friends may have been “heading to Domodedovo Airport for work and tried to get into the station without a ticket”, this does not appear to have been confirmed in other media reports. 

An investigation into the incident is underway, Anastasia Glushchenko, Senior Assistant to the Head of the Western Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Transport, confirmed. 

Reports in Russia said the women were hit by an electric commuter train as they tried to get onto a moving train in the snow. 

A distressing image from the scene appeared to show two lifeless bodies lying close to the tracks.