49 Dead, More Than 600 Injured in Argentina Train Crash

MeMyselfandI · #1 ● 02-22-2012, 11:44 AM

Buenos Aires (CNN) -- At least 49 people were killed and more than 600 people were injured when a train plowed into a platform at a Buenos Aires station Wednesday, state media said.
Emergency services director Alberto Crescenti said the number of casualties could increase, according to the state-run Telam news agency.
Transportation Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi called the crash "very serious."
Authorities believe there were problems with the train's brakes, Schiavi said.
The packed train was traveling at 26 kilometers per hour (16 mph) when it crashed, he said.
Shaken passengers told reporters that the crash sounded like a bomb blast.
"We all fell to the ground. It was horrible," one woman said.

MeMyselfandI · #2 ● 02-22-2012, 11:45 AM

from abcnews:

Officials say a packed train has slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters. It is Argentina's worst train accident in decades.

Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez says Wednesday's dead include 48 adults and one child.

It's Argentina's highest death toll from a train accident since 1970, when 200 were killed in a train collision.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires' busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades.

Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez says the dead include 48 adults and one child.

It's Argentina's highest death toll from a train accident since 1970, when 200 were killed in a train collision.