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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Spain train crash: Galicia derailment kills 78


At least 78 people have been killed in the passenger train derailment in north-western Spain on Wednesday.

More than 140 were hurt, 20 seriously, after all eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train came off the tracks near Santiago de Compostela.

Media reports say the train may have been travelling at more than twice the speed limit around a curve.

It is one of Spain's worst ever train crashes. PM Mariano Rajoy has declared three days of national mourning.

"Today is a very difficult day. Today we have lived through a terrible, dramatic accident, which I fear will stay with us for a long time.

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