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Fire crews inspect the wreckage of the train in Catalonia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

BARCELONA (Spain), Jan 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A train driver has been killed and at least 37 people injured, five seriously, after a commuter train derailed and crashed near Barcelona just days on from a deadly two-train collision in southern Spain on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to local officials, on Tuesday evening the Rodalies train collided with a retaining wall which fell onto the track between Gelida and Sant Sadurn\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalonia regional fire Inspector Claudi Gallardo said all passengers had been removed from the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident occurred as heavy storms battered north-eastern Spain, as coastal areas in the east and north-west of Spain are on high alert because of the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleven ambulances were on the scene in Gelida, Catalonia – around 35km west of Barcelona – treating those injured, emergency services said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local fire service said 35 crews had been sent to the area and one passenger trapped inside the train had been rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a later update it said that no-one remained inside and that its crews were conducting a sweep of the area to rule out any further victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency services said they had evacuated some of the injured to nearby Mois\u00e8s Broggi, Bellvitge, and Vila Franca hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as the five seriously injured people, six were in a less serious condition and 26 were in a “mild” condition, emergency medical services said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another train on the Barcelona commuter network also derailed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The axle was struck by a rock dislodged by the storm,” Spain’s rail network operator Adif said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The train was running between Blanes and Ma\u00e7anet-Massanes, north-east of Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No injuries have been reported and services have been suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 400,000 commuters are expected to be without train services on Wednesday morning, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Services across the Rodalies commuter rail network have been suspended completely while safety checks are carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rail operators are expected to meet with authorities after the inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crashes in Catalonia come two days after two high-speed trains collided in Adamuz, Andalusia, in one of the worst Spanish rail accidents in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 42 people are known to have died after carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks and then collided with an oncoming high-speed train. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BARCELONA (Spain), Jan 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A train driver has been killed and at least 37 people injured, five seriously, after a commuter train derailed and crashed near Barcelona just days on from a deadly two-train collision in southern Spain on Sunday. According to local officials, on Tuesday evening the Rodalies train collided with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322664,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322661\/revisions\/322664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}