One dead and 85 injured in a train collision in Barcelona The driver of the passenger train was killed, while two people have been seriously injured An operation is under way to rescue around 100 more passengers
The driver of a suburban train was killed and dozens of people were injured when the train they were on collided with another outside Barcelona, Catalan authorities said tonight.
About 85 people were injured, two of them seriously, according to disaster response services.
The collision occurred around 20.00 (GMT) when a freight train derailed and crashed into the passenger train at Sant Boy de Jobregat station, about 14 kilometres from Barcelona.
"The driver of the passenger train was killed in the collision," the local governor said.
About 100 passengers are still inside the train and an operation to extricate them is underway.
Source: Proto Thema
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