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A Barcelona train crashed on Tuesday after a barrier collapsed onto the tracks, killing one person and injuring at least 37 others, Spanish regional authorities said.
Catalonia regional inspector Claudi Gallardo said that the deceased was the train driver, and said that all passengers were removed from the train.
The accident in northeastern Spain came just two days after a train collision killed at least 42 people in the south of the country. Many were injured.
Emergency services in Catalonia said that of the 37 people affected by Tuesday’s accident, five were seriously injured. The other six were in less serious condition.
While Spain’s high-speed rail network operates well, the passenger train service is plagued by reliability problems, although accidents resulting in injury or death are rare in both.
The passenger train crashed near the town of Gelida, located about 35 minutes outside of Barcelona.
Rescue workers worked through the night to reach passengers trapped after a high-speed train crash in a remote area near Adamuz, Spain.
The fall came after heavy rain
Spain’s railway authority ADIF has said that the rail wall may have collapsed due to the heavy rain that has hit the north-eastern region of Spain this week. Passenger train service has been canceled on the line, it said.
Emergency workers on Tuesday were still searching for more victims of Sunday’s train crash 800 kilometers away, as the nation began three days of mourning.
Antonio Sanz, the health minister of the region of Andalusia, where the accident happened on Sunday, told Spanish media that the number of emergency workers had increased after another body was found in a badly damaged car.
Fidel Saez lost his mother in the accident, but his two children, his brother and nephew survived. Their trip to the capital is to see music King King it turned into a nightmare on the way home.
“My brother was taken off the ventilator. He told me it was a miracle he was alive. He had to pull the children out of the window,” Saez told a national TV broadcaster. “He was also asking me to tell the story of our mother, how beautiful she was.”
Health authorities said 39 people remained in hospitals on Tuesday morning, while 83 were treated and released.
Among them was Emil Johnson, a Swedish citizen based in Malaga who went to Madrid to renew his passport.
“It was probably two, three seconds. And everything was broken,” Jonsson, sitting in a wheelchair because of bruises on his ribs and back and partially wearing a hospital gown, told reporters. “When we crashed, I didn’t know who was alive and who was dead.”
In this massacre, it turned out that a six-year-old girl survived the accident without being injured, her parents, her brother and her cousin all died.
The mayor of his hometown called his survival a “miracle.”
