Tag: train derailment

One dead after landslide derails train in Spain

BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — One person was killed and six injured on Tuesday after a commuter train derailed near Barcelona due to a landslide caused by heavy rains, emergency services and Spain’s rail operator said. The accident happened in the town of Vacarisses, about 35 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of Barcelona, when two of the train’s six carriages came off the tracks, local emergency services said on Twitter. The train, which was travelling between Manresa […]

Search teams look for survivors of India train derailment

  KANPUR, India (Reuters) — Indian rescue workers picked their way through the last of the mangled carriages of a derailed train on Monday (November 21) to pull out more bodies from a disaster that killed at least 133 people and injured more than 200. Fourteen carriages of the train, en route from Patna to Indore, derailed in the early hours of Sunday (November 20) while most of the more than 500 passengers were asleep. […]

Crews continue working at scene of Amtrak train derailment near Philadelphia

CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, United States (Reuters) — A locomotive on an Amtrak train carrying about 330 passengers derailed when it hit a backhoe south of Philadelphia on Sunday (April 3), killing two people and injuring about 35 in what passengers described as a jolt followed by a fireball. The accident in Chester, Pennsylvania, about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Philadelphia, was the latest in a series involving the U.S. passenger rail carrier and occurred a […]