Barcelona rail crash kills 1 days after deadly train wreck in Spain’s south

A Spanish commuter train slammed into the rubble of a wall outside Barcelona, killing one person and injuring dozens, according to emergency personnel.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in the Catalan province of Gelida, which is 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Barcelona, in the country’s southern Andalusia region, which was at least 42 miles from Barcelona.

In televised comments from the scene of the crash on Tuesday, Claudi Gallardo, an inspector for the Catalonian fire service, reported that the train driver had died and that 37 people had been seriously injured.

According to Gallardo, “four people have been seriously injured, and one has passed away,” and all of the other passengers have been taken out of the crash’s vicinity.

The civil protection organization of Catalonia claimed that a “retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing an accident involving a passenger train.”

The wall was likely to have been caused by heavy rains that swept across the area this week, according to Spain’s rail operator ADIF.

The most recent collision comes as Spain observes three days of mourning for the victims of the deadly train accident that occurred in Andalusia on Sunday, close to Adamuz, Cordoba province, close to the city of Adamuz.

According to ADIF, the tail end of a train traveling from Malaga to the Spanish capital, Madrid, derailed and crashed into an incoming train traveling from Madrid to Huelva, another southern city, at 7:45pm local time.

The impact caused the front of the second train, which was carrying 184 people, to be hit the hardest, sending its first two carriages down a 4-meter (13-foot) slope.

According to Juanma Moreno, president of Andalusia’s regional region, some bodies were discovered hundreds of meters away from the crash site.

Since neither train was speeding, the devastating crash, which was described as “truly strange,” by Spanish Minister for Transport Oscar Puente.

Puente claimed that officials had discovered a piece of track that might have been related to the accident’s origin, but that any conclusion could take weeks.

According to Puente, “We must now determine whether that is a cause or a consequence] of the derailment.”

He said that “all hypotheses are open” at this time.