"One person has been killed and dozens injured after a Spanish commuter train crashed into the rubble of a wall that collapsed onto railway tracks outside Barcelona, emergency workers said. The crash in the municipality of Gelida, approximately 40km (25 miles) west of Barcelona, in Catalonia in northeastern Spain on Tuesday, comes just two days after a separate train collision killed at least 42 people in the country's southern Andalusia region."
"Claudi Gallardo, inspector for the fire service in the Catalonia region, said in televised comments from the site of Tuesday's crash that 37 people had been injured, four of them seriously, and the train driver had died. There are four seriously injured, and one person who has passed away, Gallardo said, adding that all passengers had been removed from the site of the crash."
"Sunday's crash happened at 7:45pm local time when the tail end of a train carrying 289 passengers on the route from Malaga to the Spanish capital, Madrid, derailed and crashed into an incoming train, travelling from Madrid to Huelva, another southern city, according to ADIF. The front of the second train, which was carrying 184 people, took the brunt of the impact, which knocked its first two carriages off the track and down a 4- metre (13-foot) slope."
A commuter train collided with rubble from a collapsed retaining wall near Gelida, Catalonia, killing one person and injuring 37, four seriously. Emergency services removed all passengers from the site and confirmed the train driver died. Catalonia’s civil protection agency said the retaining wall fell onto the tracks, and Spain’s railway operator ADIF attributed the likely cause to heavy rains sweeping the region. The crash occurred two days after a separate derailment and collision in Andalusia that killed at least 42 people. Spain observed three days of mourning for the victims of the earlier Andalusia accident.
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