A passenger train derailed on Tuesday after a retaining wall fell onto the tracks in heavy rain near the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing the driver and seriously injuring four passengers, a fire department official said.
The accident occurred just two days after a collision and derailment of a high-speed train near Adamuz in the southern province of Córdoba that killed 42 people.
Claudi Gallardo, an inspector at Catalonia’s regional fire department, said in comments broadcast from the scene on TV that 37 people were injured, four of them seriously, and the driver died. According to him, all passengers were removed from the train.
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Twenty ambulances were sent to the scene in Gelida, on the outskirts of Barcelona, as well as 38 fire units, emergency services authorities said.
The commuter train derailment occurred in an area plagued by under-resourced rail services and frequent incidents.
In a separate incident on Tuesday evening, traffic between Blanes and Maçanet-Massanes, south of the city of Girona — also part of Barcelona’s suburban rail network — was halted “due to a train axle leaving the tracks,” Spanish rail operator Adif said in a statement on X.
