One dead, four seriously injured in train accident near Barcelona

ONE PERSON HAS died and four were seriously injured after a train near Barcelona ploughed into the rubble of a collapsed wall this evening, firefighters said.

The incident occurred in Gelida, Catalonia, which is around 35km west of Barcelona.

The accident marks Spain’s second deadly rail accident in days following the collision of two high-speed trains on Sunday in Andalusia, in the south of the country, which left at least 42 people dead.

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“There are four seriously injured and one person who has passed away,” a spokesman for the fire service in the northeastern region of Catalonia, Claudi Gallardo, told reporters this evening.

“A retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing an accident involving a passenger train” in the municipality of Gelida, the region’s civil protection agency posted on its social media accounts.

Heavy storms are currently battering north-eastern Spain, including Gelida.

With additional reporting from AFP

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