Six hurt as Spanish train hits crane in new rail crash
A commuter train collided with a boom crane in southeastern Spain, emergency services reported, in the country’s fourth rail accident in less than a week.
Authorities added that six people suffered minor injuries in the accident that occurred on Thursday near the port city of Cartagena in the Murcia region.
The incident, which did not derail the train but disrupted traffic on the line for a short time, took place four days after the high-speed train collision that occurred in the southern Andalusia region and killed at least 43 people.
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Two days later, a commuter train derailed near the city of Barcelona when a guard wall fell onto the tracks due to heavy rain, killing the driver and seriously injuring four passengers.
The main train drivers’ union subsequently called a nationwide strike over safety standards, and a second collision occurred in the north-eastern Catalonia region on the same day.
On Thursday, “a street-lit boom truck entered public railroad property with its arm and crashed into the windows of a passing metric train,” Transportation Secretary Oscar Puente wrote in a post on X.
The injuries were minor, a spokesman for the central government’s representative in Murcia told Reuters.
They added that alcohol tests on both the train driver and the crane operator were negative.
Firefighters on Thursday rescued Boro, a dog who had been missing since Sunday’s train crash, and reunited him with his owners in a rare moment of relief as they mourn the victims of the high-speed train crash that also injured more than 120 people.
Boro, a hybrid of a schnauzer and a water dog, was traveling on one of the trains with his owner Ana Garcia Aranda and her pregnant sister at the time of the accident.
While both women were injured, the sister was taken to intensive care.
Relatives asked for help from the public to find the dog.
“If I can’t do anything for my sister, I hope I can at least find Boro,” Garcia Aranda said in his comments appearing in Spanish media earlier this week.
Police first spotted the dog near the crash scene on Wednesday, but when officers tried to approach it, it ran away.
Firefighters caught him the next morning.
“We knew where he could be since yesterday and today we were finally able to find him and bring him back to us so he can go back to his family,” one of the firefighters told reporters. he said.
The dog was later reunited with its relatives.
“It’s been so hard and so beautiful,” a family spokesman said.
