Reuters
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A commuter prepare collided with a crane in southeastern Spain on Thursday, emergency providers stated, in the nation’s fourth rail crash in lower than a week.
Four individuals suffered minor accidents in the crash close to the port metropolis of Cartagena in Murcia area, authorities added.
“The train hasn’t been overturned or derailed,” a spokesperson for Murcia’s emergency providers stated. The first calls concerning the crash got here in simply after midday, they added.
Spain continues to be reeling from Sunday’s high-speed train collision in the southern Andalusia area that killed at the least 43 individuals.
Two days after that, a commuter train derailed after a containment wall fell on the observe on account of heavy rain close to the town of Barcelona, killing the motive force and critically injuring 4 passengers.
The most important prepare drivers’ union called a nationwide strike over security requirements after that and a second collision in the northeastern Catalonia area the identical day, Tuesday.
On Thursday, Spanish rail operator Adif stated visitors on the road in Murcia was disrupted by what it described as “the intrusion into the infrastructure gauge by a crane not belonging to the railway operation.”
Its message on X didn’t go into extra element.
A later posting stated providers had resumed on the road.