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09-09-2016, 07:28 PM
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Four dead in Spain as train derails
O Porri**, Spain: A train carrying tourists to Portugal from **rthwestern Spain veered off the tracks and smashed into a pillar Friday just as it was approaching a station, leaving its driver and three others dead.
The train, which was going to Porto in Portugal from Spain´s Vigo, appeared to have hit the wall of a bridge as it was going underneath and subsequently crashed on a good-visibility, straight line, according to the mayor of the nearby town of O Porri**. A carriage of the train, which was carrying at least 65 people, lay on its side at the scene, the front completely caved in and mangled. Helicopters and ambulances rushed to attend to victims of the Friday morning accident, in which authorities said Four people died -- including the train´s Portuguese driver -- and a**ther 47 were hurt, some of them still in hospital but **ne critical. A spokeswoman for Spain´s railway company Renfe said the Spanish conductor of the train was also killed, but the other two victims are as yet unidentified. Jesus Vazquez Almuina, in charge of health matters in the regional government, told Spanish television there were many nationalities on board. "There were a lot of Spaniards and Portuguese obviously, but also Americans, Germans, people from Chile, Argentina... people who were doing the Road to Santiago (pilgrimage) and were continuing their trip to Porto," he said. Witnesses of the accident, the causes of which remain unk**wn, spoke of a loud **ise. أكثر... 
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