Jul
25
At least 60 killed in Spanish train crash
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Victims receive help after the train crash near Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Photo: Reuters/Xoan A. Soler/Monica Ferreiros/La Voz de Galicia
At least 60 people have died in a train derailment in north-western Spain, near the city of Santiago de Compostela, and at least 100 passengers have been injured, witnesses say.
The train carrying 218 passengers left Madrid bound for the north-western town of Ferrol.
The Renfe railway company earlier spoke of “several dead and injured” in the accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela, but could not immediately give a precise toll. Reuters reported that at least 35 were killed and 50 others injured.
“It derailed near the station of Santiago de Compostela but we don’t yet know why,” Renfe said.
A witness told radio Cadena SER that carriages overturned several times on a bend and came to a halt piled up on each other.
Spain’s prime minister will visit the scene of the accident today.
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