BARCELONA: One person died and four were seriously injured after a train near Barcelona ploughed into the rubble of a collapsed wall on Tuesday, firefighters said, Spain’s second deadly rail accident in days.
The latest incident is likely to raise more questions about Spanish rail safety after the collision of two high-speed trains in the southern region of Andalusia on Sunday killed 42 people and injured more than 120.
On Tuesday, “a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing an accident involving a passenger train” in the municipality of Gelida, around 40km (25 miles) west of Barcelona, the northeastern Catalonia region’s civil protection agency posted on social media.