#train-derailment

#train-derailment

MANSFIELD, Conn. (AP) - A freight train derailed Thursday in Connecticut, sending cars carrying flammable liquid propane into the water, though officials say they don't appear to be leaking. Local and state officials said the derailment happened around 9 a.m. in Mansfield, near where Eagleville Lake meets the Willimantic River. The rural town in the eastern part of the state is home to the University of Connecticut.

The Iryo train that crashed on Sunday in Adamuz in the Spanish province of Cordoba displays marks on the wheels of the first five carriages that passed over the track before its derailment, as evidenced by the work carried out by Spain's Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF). These marks, up to the size of a coin, could coincide with the break in the track at kilometer 318 of the Madrid-Seville line, which is where the tragic accident occurred, leaving 42 people dead.

a 33-year-old consultant traveling from Malaga to Madrid in carriage number six of the high-speed train run by Spanish company Iryo, who prefers to remain anonymous, began to feel the train vibrating excessively. Then she noticed it swaying, lurching from side to side. Suitcases and bags tumbled from the overhead luggage racks, and glasses, laptops, and other items on the tables fell to the floor.

The derailment of two high-speed trains in Adamuz (Cordoba) on Sunday has caused at least 39 fatalities and dozens of serious injuries, with victims already transferred to hospitals, according to sources from the Civil Guard and the Andalusian emergency services. Forty-eight people remain hospitalized, 12 of them in intensive care units in the city of Cordoba. An Iryo train traveling from Malaga to Madrid derailed shortly after 7:30 p.m. and fell onto the tracks where an Alvia train was traveling at 200 kilometers per hour (125 mph) in the opposite direction toward Huelva.

BANGKOK -- A construction crane fell onto a moving passenger train, causing a fiery derailment that killed at least 29 people Wednesday in northeastern Thailand. Another 64 people were injured and rescuers were still searching the wreckage and giving first aid. The derailment occurred on part of an ambitious planned high-speed rail project that will eventually connect China with much of Southeast Asia.

Thai officials have raise the death toll to at least 29 after an accident when a construction crane fell on a passenger train northeast of the Thai capital, Bangkok. At least 64 people were reported injured in the accident. The train was travelling from Bangkok to Thailand's northeast when the accident occurred in the Sikhio district of Nakhon Ratchasima province, 230 kilometers (143 miles) northeast of Bangkok.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Officials said a train accident in southern Mexico killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, halting traffic along a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico. The Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz went off the rails Sunday as it passed a curve near the town of Nizanda.