At least 77 people dead after train derails in Spain, the worst train accident in decades
Posted Jul 25, 2013 04:43:14 AM.
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MADRID, Spain – A Spanish court official says 77 people were killed when a passenger train derailed on a curvy stretch of track in northwestern Spain in what was one of the country’s worst rail accidents in decades.
Maria Pardo Rios, spokeswoman for the Galicia region’s main court, said Thursday that 73 people were found dead at the scene of the accident and four died at hospitals.
At least 140 people were injured in the derailment late Wednesday.
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