A brutal crash it took place in Catalonia. A bus carrying workers from a company in Spain crashed into the entrance to a tunnel and left nearly 50 injuredthree of them in critical condition.
The vehicle was stuck vertically at the entrance to the passage on the C32 highway. Through the social network X, the medical emergency system of Catalonia indicated that the accident let 47 people were injured, three of them in critical condition and 22 in serious condition.
Accident in Catalonia leaves almost 50 injured
Two of the three injured in critical condition had to be evacuated aboard medical helicopterswhile the third, as well as the seriously injured, were transferred in ambulances to hospitals in the regionFirefighters reported that they had to carry out work to free the driver, who had been trapped inside the vehicle.
The bus was transporting company workers Inditex from Barcelona to the town of Torderawhere other brands of the company are headquartered.
According to the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia, the emergency teams that worked at the site are considering the hypothesis that One of the bus’s wheels got puncturedwhich caused the vehicle to lose control and crash into the side of the road, just at the entrance to the tunnel.
Tragedy in Chile: a train crash left two dead and several injured
A train being tested without passengers from the State Railways Company (EFE) from Chile collided with a freight train operated by the private railway company Fepasa, causing the death of two people and leaving nine injured.
The accident, whose causes are being investigated by units of the Carabineros police, occurred shortly after midnight on the main railway line in the San Bernardo areaon the outskirts of the Chilean capital, towards the south.
The eight-car train was loaded with 1,346 tons of copper. The company said in a statement that the train came from the Rancagua area, about 90 kilometers from Santiago.
In the letter, they stated: “We regret to report the death of two freight train workers“The deceased are two crew members, while the injured, who were taken to medical centres, were travelling on the test train.
For his part, the prosecutor for the area, Peter Aravenatold the media that, according to the first information, the incident “occurred because the train that was hit, the freight train, was coming from south to north with cargo and from the central He was not warned that this freight train was coming north.“He also said that the reasons why he did not receive the warning were “unknown.”
So far there are two detainees, both EFE officials, according to the prosecution. Ministry of Transport He told Reuters news agency that the investigation into the incident is ongoingbut that the passenger train has a black box that must be obtained to access more information and that the GPS was operational.
Source: Ambito
