At least 20 killed in train derailment in Spain

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Madrid: At least 20 people were killed when a train derailed outside the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday, state media and witnesses said.


Train wagons lay on their sides with smoke billowing from the wreckage, photographs published on the Voz de Galicia newspaper website showed.

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Apparently the tracks were laid in 2011 and the train itself was only five years old. Speed was a factor in the crash.
 

#juan

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Apparently the tracks were laid in 2011 and the train itself was only five years old. Speed was a factor in the crash.


Every time I read about this incident, the death toll increases. It started out with twenty dead and we are now at eighty. There is a video of the train crashing. It looked ugly.