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Incident happend at Spain, Northwest.
A high-speed train that derailed on a curve Wednesday night in northwestern Spain has
killed at least 77 passengers and injured 141 others, reports said.
Officials said initially that the crash, which occurred on the eve of a local Christian festival, appeared to be
an accident, not terrorism. In 2004, Islamists blew up trains in Madrid, killing 191 and wounding hundreds.
The express train, carrying 218 people between Madrid and Ferrol, left the tracks at 8:42 p.m.
(2:42 p.m. ET) about two miles from the station at Santiago de Compostela, in the Galician region,
said the government-owned railway, Renfe. The number of crewmembers was not released.
All 13 carriages derailed, and four overturned, the BBC reported. TV images showed
one car torn apart, another on fire and blanket-covered bodies beside the ruined carriages.
"A lot of people were squashed on the bottom. We tried to squeeze out of the bottom
of the wagons to get out and we realized the train was burning," passenger Ricardo Montesco
told radio station Cadena SER. "I was in the second wagon and there was fire. I saw corpses."
"There are bodies lying on the railway track. It's a Dante-esque scene,"
Nunez told SER, the AFP news agency reported.
Nunez said it was too soon to say what caused the accident.
CNN said an aide to the prime minister indicated that terrorism was not likely.
Photographer Xabier Martinez told the Associated Press that two injured passengers
told him they felt a strong vibration before the train jumped the track.
A witness told Cadena SER she heard a loud explosion just before the train derailed,
Reuters reported. That claim has not been confirmed.
Festivities were planned Thursday in Santiago de Compostola to celebrate St James,
one of Jesus's 12 apostles whose remains are claimed to buried there. Officials
said many of the travelers likely were pilgrims headed to the city, about 60 miles south of Ferrol. Officials canceled the festivities.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey, who was born in Santiago de Compostola, convened an emergency ministerial meeting late Wednesday, the BBC said. He plans to visit the accident scene Thursday morning.
"I want to express my affection and solidarity with the
victims of the terrible train accident in Santiago," Rajoy tweeted.
Two weeks ago in France, six people died when several cars
of a train packed ahead of the Bastille Day holiday derailed
in a station outside Paris. Officials blamed a faulty trak connector.
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