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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

At least 35 killed as train derails in Spain: reports

(Reuters) - 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. The train derailed on the eve of the ancient city's main Christian festival when thousands of pilgrims travel in to pack the streets. "It was going so quickly ... It seems that...

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