Commuter train crash in Barcelona station injures 54 – VIDEO
A commuter train crashed into a railway buffer in Barcelona’s Francia station, injuring 54 people, five of those seriously, emergency services said on Friday. There were no deaths reported.
UPDATE: Emergency services said at least 54 people were injured in the crash.
UPDATE: The force of the crash crumpled the front of the train against the buffer and detached a sheet of metal.
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Nineteen of the injured, including the driver, were taken to hospital, emergency services said, while medics treated others on stretchers on the platform. They had previously given the number of injured as 48.
Many of the passengers were already standing, ready to get off, when the train crashed, the newspaper La Vanguardia reported.
At least 18 of the injured need hospital attention, emergency services said. The driver was among the injured, they said.
The train was coming from Sant Vicenc de Calders village in the province of Tarragona on the R2 line of the Rodalies commuter rail service, emergency services said.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
Mi tren ha chocado al llegar a estación de Francia hoy pic.twitter.com/WYGJMbcw7j
— Felix Rios (@iamfelixrios) July 28, 2017
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