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Incredible escape - high-speed train collision shreds rail car

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Rescue workers stand at the site of a train crash in Granja do Ulmeiro on Jan. 22.
Rescue workers stand at the site of a train crash in Granja do Ulmeiro on Jan. 22.Stringer / Reuters
A train sits beneath the carriage of another train after they collided at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.
A train sits beneath the carriage of another train after they collided at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.Miguel Teixeira / AP

Emergency services say a high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter a station in central Portugal, derailing several carriages leaving a pile of wreckage on Portugal’s main north-south line, slightly injuring 21 people. Officials said the local train was waiting to pull into a station near Coimbra, 120 miles north of the capital, Lisbon, when the northbound intercity train slammed into it from behind at 9.15 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Monday

--The Associated Press

A worker walks by the wreckage at the scene of a train crash at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.
A worker walks by the wreckage at the scene of a train crash at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.Miguel Teixeira / AP

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