MADRID—A passenger train derailed Wednesday night on a curvy stretch of track in northwestern Spain, killing at least 40 people caught inside toppled cars and injuring at least 140 in the country's worst rail accident in decades, officials said.
A train traveling in northwestern Spain has derailed close to Santiago de Compostela.
Bodies were covered in blankets next to the tracks as rescue workers tried to get trapped people out of the train's cars. Some were pulled out of broken windows, and one man knelt atop a carriage lying on its side, using a pickax to try to break open a window. Images showed one car pointing up into the air with one of its ends twisted and disfigured. Another carriage that had been severed in two was lying on a road near the track.
Officials gave differing death tolls in the immediate aftermath of the crash just outside Santiago de Compostela, on the eve of the city's annual religious festival that attracts tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the region of Galicia where Santiago de Compostela is the capital, said at least 40 people died. But the president of Galicia's main court, Miguel Angel Cadenas, was quoted from the scene by the Cadena Ser radio station saying 56 died. Rescue workers were still searching through the smoldering wreckage of the train's cars Thursday morning in the predawn darkness.
State-owned train operator Renfe said in a statement that 218 passengers and an unspecified number of staff were on board the eight-carriage train during the 8.41 p.m. crash on a section of tracks that came online two years ago.
Renfe and track operator Adif were collaborating with a judge who has been appointed to investigate the accident...
A train traveling in northwestern Spain has derailed close to Santiago de Compostela.
Bodies were covered in blankets next to the tracks as rescue workers tried to get trapped people out of the train's cars. Some were pulled out of broken windows, and one man knelt atop a carriage lying on its side, using a pickax to try to break open a window. Images showed one car pointing up into the air with one of its ends twisted and disfigured. Another carriage that had been severed in two was lying on a road near the track.
Officials gave differing death tolls in the immediate aftermath of the crash just outside Santiago de Compostela, on the eve of the city's annual religious festival that attracts tens of thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the region of Galicia where Santiago de Compostela is the capital, said at least 40 people died. But the president of Galicia's main court, Miguel Angel Cadenas, was quoted from the scene by the Cadena Ser radio station saying 56 died. Rescue workers were still searching through the smoldering wreckage of the train's cars Thursday morning in the predawn darkness.
State-owned train operator Renfe said in a statement that 218 passengers and an unspecified number of staff were on board the eight-carriage train during the 8.41 p.m. crash on a section of tracks that came online two years ago.
Renfe and track operator Adif were collaborating with a judge who has been appointed to investigate the accident...
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