"Two trains taking tourists to and from Peru's famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring about 30 passengers. The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco police department. He told the Associated Press that the railway suspended services along the rail line connecting Machu Picchu with the nearby city of Cuzco after the accident."
"According to the company operating the railway, a train coming from Machu Picchu collided with a train headed there in the early afternoon, near Qoriwayrachina, also an archeological site. No further details about what had caused the crash were immediately available. Videos on local media showed train cars with broken windows and dented sides stuck along a rail line hemmed in between lush forest and a massive rock."
Two tourist trains collided near Machu Picchu, killing at least one person and injuring about 30 passengers. The fatality was a railroad worker. Railway operators suspended services along the rail link between Machu Picchu and Cuzco after the crash. The collision occurred near Qoriwayrachina, another archaeological site, and authorities provided no immediate cause. Local videos showed damaged train cars with broken windows and dented sides lodged between forest and a large rock. Machu Picchu receives roughly 1.5 million visitors annually, mostly arriving by train to Aguas Calientes, and tourism has risen about 25% over the past decade.
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