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Train derailment in Spain

Scores are killed and injured in a train derailment in NW Spain.

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epa03804727 A crane raises the locomotive of the train that derailed on 24 July 2013 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, early 28 July 2013. For nine hours officers have been working to raise the last piece of wreckage left after the accident in which 78 people died and over a hundred were injured. EPA/SXENICK
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epa03803933 Relatives and friends of Ignacio Bustamante, one of the 80 people who died at the Santiago de Compostela train accident, cry during his funeral held in San Fernando, Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain on 27 July 2013. A total of 80 people died and over a hundred were injured when a train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed at Santiago de Compostela last 24 July. The train driver, Francisco Jose Garzon, is still at hospital being treated after he also got injured in the accident, but is under arrest as he declared just after the accident he was driving at 190 km per hour at a curve with an 80 km per hour limit speed. Investigations are still trying to clarify the causes of the high speed and what might had happened. EPA/ROMAN RIOS
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People carry a coffin of a medical student, Laura Naveiras Ferreiro, one of the train crash victim, during her funeral at the San Pedro de Visma cementery in A Coruna, Spain, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz says the driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide. The Spanish train derailed at high speed Wednesday killing 78 and injuring dozens more. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)
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epa03804115 General view of the luggage of the passengers of train that derailed last 24 July 2013 at a pavilion in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 27 July 2013. A total of 80 people died and over a hundred were injured when a train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed at Santiago de Compostela last 24 July. The train driver, Francisco Jose Garzon, is under arrest after refusing to declare before the police 27 July 2013 although he admitted, just after the accident, that he was driving at 190 km per hour at a curve with an 80 km per hour limit speed. Investigations are still trying to clarify the causes of the high speed and what might had happened. EPA/XOAN REY
— Xoan Rey / EFE
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A combination of 4 grabs from a security video camera shows an Alvia model train derailing four kilometres from Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24, 2013 in northwest Spain killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO/ HO RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT \"AFP PHOTO/ HO\" NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS-/AFP/Getty Images
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epa03800761 A crane removes one of the carriages at the scene of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, 25 July 2013. The train was travelling between Madrid and Ferrol when it derrailed while approaching the train station of Santiago de Compostela on 24 July. The death toll in Spain's worst train accident in four decades has risen to 78, with 130 others injured, as investigators focused on whether excessive speed was to blame. EPA/SALVADOR SAS
— Salvador Sas / EFE
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Relatives of the victims of a train accident react outside the Cersia building, where they are attended by psychologists from the Red Cross in Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24 in northwest Spain killing at least 77 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO/ CESAR MANSOCESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images
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epa03800759 Firemen works in the removal of a carriage at the scene of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, 25 July 2013. The train was travelling between Madrid and Ferrol when it derrailed while approaching the train station of Santiago de Compostela on 24 July. The death toll in Spain's worst train accident in four decades has risen to 78, with 130 others injured, as investigators focused on whether excessive speed was to blame. EPA/SALVADOR SAS
— Salvador Sas / EFE
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SPAIN OUT A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows an injured man sitting next to the body of a victim covered with a blanket following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24 in northwest Spain killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSMONICA FERREIROS, XOAN A. SOLER/AFP/Getty Images
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SPAIN OUT A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows a fireman carrying an injured young girl following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24 in northwest Spain killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSXOAN A. SOLER, MONICA FERREIROS/AFP/Getty Images
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SPAIN OUT A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows wounded train driver Francisco Jose Garzon Amo evacuated by two men after the train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. The focus of a probe into a horrific train derailment in northwestern Spain that killed at least 80 people, on July 26, 2013 turned to the injured driver. The driver, identified by local media as Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, 52, was under police surveillance in hospital after the train hurtled off the tracks late Wednesday while apparently going at twice the legal speed limit in one of Spain's worst rail disasters ever. The Galician regional government said 80 people died and at least another 100 were injured in the accident, which left bodies and gutted carriages strewn across the tracks. AFP PHOTO - LA VOZ DE GALICIA - XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSMONICA FERREIROS,XOAN A. SOLER/AFP/Getty Images
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Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez)
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A woman is evacuated by emergency personnel at the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez)
— El Correo Gallego/antonio Hernan / AP
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An injured passenger is helped by a policeman after a train crashed near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. At least 35 people died after a train derailed in the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, the head of Spain's Galicia region, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, told Cadena Ser radio on Wednesday. A woman who was close to the site of the accident told the radio station that she had first heard a loud explosion and then seen the train derailed. REUTERS/Oscar Corral (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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epa03800076 Emergency members attend to the injured of the train accident close to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain on 24 July 2013. The train was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol in north eastern Spain. According to the investigation accident source the numbers of deaths has risen to 30. EPA/LAVANDEIRA JR
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Image: Victims receive help after a train crashed near Santiago de Compostela

Victims receive help after a train crashed near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. At least 56 people died after a train derailed in the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, the head of Spain's Galicia region, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, told Television de Galicia. MANDATORY CREDIT. REUTERS/Xoan A. Soler/Monica Ferreiros/La Voz de Galicia (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) MANDATORY CREDIT. SPAIN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SPAIN
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Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez)
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epa03800149 Injured train passengers are receiving first aid after a train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed close to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, 24 July 2013. At least 35 people have been killed and more than 50 were injured in the accident. Many passengers on the train were pilgrims bound for events dedicated to the patron saint of Santiago de Compostela. The city cancelled the festival. EPA/LAVANDEIRA JR
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epa03800062 Emergency members attend to the injured of the train accident which was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol a close to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain on 24 July 2013. Latest media reports suggest at least 10 persons killed with many more injured EPA/SXENICK
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Image: Rescue workers pull victims from train crash near Santiago de Compostela

ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH Rescue workers pull victims from a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. At least 35 people were killed and 50 injured when a train derailed on the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday in one of the country's worst rail disasters. Bodies covered in blankets lay next to carriages as smoke billowed from the wreckage a few hundred meters away from the entrance to the city's main station. REUTERS/Oscar Corral (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) TEMPLATE OUT
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epa03800077 Emergency members attend to the injured of the train accident close to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain on 24 July 2013. The train was travelling from Madrid to Ferrol in north eastern Spain. According to the investigation accident source the numbers of deaths has risen to 30. EPA/LAVANDEIRA JR
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Rescuers carry the body of a victim as other bodies covered with blankets lie on the ground, near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. At least 35 people died and 200 people were injured when a train derailed in Galicia in northwestern Spain today, the president of the regional government of Galicia said. The train which carried 238 passengers originated in Madrid and was bound for the northwestern town of Ferrol. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPAMIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images
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Image: Rescue workers and officials are seen amongst the wreckage of a train crash near Santiago de Compostela

Rescue workers and officials are seen amongst the wreckage of a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, early July 25, 2013. A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)
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A member of the road security department checks inside the locomotive at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24, 2013 in northwest Spain killing at least 77 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO/ MIGUEL RIOPAMIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images
— Miguel Riopa / AFP
Image: A crane removes a carriage from the tracks at the site of a train crash near Santiago de Compostela

A crane removes a carriage from the tracks at the site of a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 25, 2013. A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal (SPAIN - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT)
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