Barcelona train accident: at least one dead and 95 wounded – 08/02/2019

One woman died and 95 others were injured in a frontal collision of two trains between the towns of Sant Vicenç de Castellet and Manresa, both of which Barcelonanorthwest of Spain.

According to the data provided by the members of the Civil Protection, three of the wounded are in a delicate state. they could not specify for the moment the reason for the incident.

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The rest of the travelers, about a hundred, were not injured and were evacuated. Emergency teams of fire, civil protection, emergency medical system (SEM) and regional police of Catalonia work on the site of the accident.

According to the newspaper La Vanguardia, the deadly victim is the driver of one of the formations, a 26-year-old woman from Grenada who had been in this position for a short time.

"The information we have is that the shock was frontal"Said Antonio Carmona, spokesman of the RENFE railway operator.One of the trains was going to Barcelona and the other to Manresa when at around 18:20 they found themselves on the same track to the kilometers 306 and 308. The two formations trained about 300 people on board.

"Although it's a two-way zone, both circulate in the same. This is a situation that should not have been experienced and we must investigate what happened, "Carmona said.

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This is the second accident in less than three months on the Barcelona suburban line. Last November, a 36-year-old man died and 49 people were injured when another train derailed due to detachment from a slope.