Train crashes into crane in southeastern Spain, several lightly injured

Train crashes into crane in southeastern Spain, several lightly injured

A commuter train crashed into a construction crane near Cartagena, Murcia.

A regional service train collided with a collapsed wall between Sant Sadurní d’Anoia and Gelida, near Barcelona, killing one person and seriously injuring five. (AFP pic)
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A commuter train has crashed into a construction crane in southeastern Spain, leaving an undetermined number of people lightly injured, regional emergency services said today.

“The train hasn’t been overturned nor derailed,” a spokesman for emergency services in the southeastern Murcia region told Reuters.

The crash occurred near Murcia’s Cartagena. It came after Sunday’s deadly high-speed train collision in the southern Andalusia region that killed at least 43 people and two other crashes in Catalonia on Tuesday.

Spanish rail operator Adif said on X that traffic on that line was interrupted due to “the intrusion into the infrastructure gauge by a crane not belonging to the railway operation”, without providing further details.

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