MOSCOW, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Sixty people have been injured after a passenger train derailed in the Amur region of Russia's Far East, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday.

    All passengers were evacuated from the scene and no one was killed. Fourteen of the injured were hospitalized and six of them were in serious condition, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.

    Thirteen tail coaches of train No. 326, which was en route from Neryungri to Khabarovsk, swerved off the rails and overturned near the Shimanovsk railway station in the Amur region at 8:07 a.m. Moscow time (0407 GMT) on Thursday, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted the ministry as saying.

    There were 360 passengers in the train, of which 9 were children. The passengers have been brought to Shimanovsk by 20 buses.

    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to take immediate measures to eliminate the aftermath of the railway accident.

    Putin also urged "to give prompt medical aid to the victims, render full assistance to the other passengers of the train and take measures to find out the causes of the incident," a cabinet press service official was cited as saying.

    A commission has been set up to probe the causes of the accident. The commission is headed by Gennady Kurzenkov, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport.

    Preliminary expert assessments showed that "the deflection of a continuous welded rail following its thermal deformation" was a possible reason for the accident, said Oleg Safonov, Russian presidential envoy to the Far East Federal District.

    Meanwhile, a source in Far Eastern law enforcement agencies said "no traces of a sabotage or terrorist act have been found" at the scene.