Spain train derailment kills many

July 25, 2013 16:41
Spain train derailment kills many

Arousing great shock a train derailed outside the ancient north-western Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters.

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Furthermore, bodies covered in blankets lay next to the overturned carriages as smoke came out as great wave from the wreckage. Firefighters climbed with difficulty over the twisted metal putting an effort to get survivors out of the windows, while ambulances and fire engines surrounded the scene. In fact, the government mentioned that it was working on the presupposition of the derailment, which occurred on the eve of the city's main religious festival in actuality was an accident. An official source expressed that whether it's a sabotage otherwise attack was unlikely to be involved. even-though the destruction will have disturbing memories of a train bombing in Madrid in 2004, carried out by Islamist extremists, that resulted killing 191 people.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)

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