1 dead in the Barcelona commuter train accident: The victim is the train driver
A Barcelona commuter train crashed Tuesday after a retaining wall fell onto the tracks, Spanish emergency services said, just two days after a separate deadly train collision killed at least 42 people in southern Spain and injured dozens more.
The Barcelona crash came as emergency workers searched for more victims in the wreckage of Sunday’s deadly train accident in southern Spain, and as the nation began three days of mourning for the victims.
Regional emergency services said 15 people were injured in Tuesday’s crash, three of them seriously. Five others were in a less serious condition.
The commuter train crashed near the town of Gelida, located about 35 minutes outside of Barcelona.
Spain’s railway operator ADIF said the containment wall likely collapsed due to heavy rainfall that swept across the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia this week.
Antonio Sanz, the regional health minister of Andalusia, where Sunday’s accident occurred, told Spanish media that the official toll from the accident had risen after another corpse was discovered in a severely damaged car.
Amid the tragedy, it emerged that a 6-year-old girl survived the wreck without major injury, while her parents, brother and cousin all perished.
