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A train driver has been killed and no less than 37 people injured after a commuter train derailed in Spain just days after a deadly two-train collision on Sunday.
The train crashed right into a retaining wall which had fallen onto the rails near Barcelona yesterday evening.
All passengers were faraway from the train and 37 were treated for injuries, with five in a serious condition.
The general public injured were in the primary carriage, which bore the brunt of the impact against the wall, El Pais reports.
The wall is believed to have collapsed onto the tracks as a consequence of erosion brought on by heavy rain after storms raged over north-eastern Spain in recent days.
Eleven ambulances were sent to the crash site between Sant Sadurní d’Anoia and Gelida stations – 21.7 miiles west of Barcelona – after the derailment was reported at 9.02pm local time (8.02pm GMT).
One passenger trapped contained in the wreckage was also rescued, based on the local fire service.
The collision got here as one other train derailed on the Barcelona commuter network on Tuesday.
The train was running between Blanes and Maçanet-Massanes when ‘the axle was struck by a rock dislodged by the storm,’ based on Spain’s rail network operator Adif.
There have been no injuries and services were suspended.
Train traffic has been suspended across your entire network in Catalonia.
The Spanish Union of Railway Drivers has called for your entire railway infrastructure to be inspected to evaluate the impact of recent storms and for Catalan commuter services to be suspended ‘until further notice’.
The 2 derailments follows the deaths of no less than 42 people in Spain on Sunday after two high-speed trains collided in Spain.
A train certain for the Spanish capital, Madrid, crossed into an adjoining track, causing an ‘incredibly violent impact’ with a train heading to the port city of Huelva within the Andalusia region.
The Huelva-bound train derailed on impact while travelling at 124 mph (200 km/h) and plunged down a railway embankment at Adamuz in Cordoba.
The trains were carrying 4 hundred passengers and staff, leaving numerous people trapped within the wreckage and flinging others ‘tons of of meters away’.
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