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Spain rocked by second rail tragedy in days: Barcelona passenger train derails after dozens killed in southern collision
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By Pau Mosquera and Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Córdoba, Spain (CNN) — At least one person has died and 37 were injured on Tuesday after a passenger train derailed in Gelida, near the Spanish city of Barcelona, a spokesperson for the regional government of Catalonia told CNN.
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1 killed in train derailment near Barcelona days after deadly rail collision
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Spain rocked by second rail tragedy in days: Barcelona passenger train derails after dozens killed in southern collision
A collision between high-speed trains in southern Spain has killed at least 21 people. Transport Minister Óscar Puente updated the death toll and said it may rise beyond that number. Seventy-five people were hospitalized with injuries.
Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people died in the a high-speed train collision Sunday in southern Spain and rescue efforts were continuing.
At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when a high-speed train derailed in southern Spain, crossed onto the opposite track and collided with an oncoming train.
ADAMUZ, Spain (CNN) — — Survivors recalled haunting cries and blood-smeared passenger cars after two high-speed trains collided near Cordoba, southern Spain late Sunday – in one of the nation’s deadliest railway disasters in more than a decade.
A high-speed train in southern Spain derailed Sunday evening, colliding with another train and killing at least 39 people. Spanish authorities reported more than...
By Laura Sharman, Pau Mosquera, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN A high-speed train derailed and hurtled into another train in Spain on Sunday evening, killing at least 21 people and leaving dozens injured in one of the country’s worst rail disasters in more than a decade.
At least 39 people were killed in a high-speed train collision in southern Spain Sunday, police said. Efforts to recover the bodies are continuing, and the death toll is likely to rise.
A high-speed train derailed and was hit by another in southern Spain killing 39 people and injuring more than 120, authorities said Monday, saying the country
ADAMUZ, Spain >> At least 39 people died in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming one on Sunday night in one of the worst railway accidents in Europe in the past 80 years.
Train derailment kills 21 people and injures about 100 others after high-speed trains collide in Córdoba province, Spain, according to reports from Sunday evening.
By Pau Mosquera, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN The derailment of two high-speed trains on Sunday has left at least 21 people dead in southern Spain’s Adamuz municipality, near Córdoba, the Andalusian Emergency Agency said.
A high-speed train derailed in southern Spain on Sunday, jumping onto the track in the opposite direction and hitting an oncoming train in an accident that authorities estimate left more than 20 people dead and dozens injured.
At least 21 people have been killed and nearly 250 others were injured after two trains operating on a high-speed rail line collided in southern Spain, according to officials. The death toll is expected to rise. The accident occurred Sunday at about 7:45 p.m.
