Train hits crane in Spain’s fourth rail crash in a week, four injured
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Police officers working at the site where a commuter train collided with a crane in Spain's Murcia region on Jan 22.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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MADRID - A commuter train hits a crane in south-eastern Spain on Jan 22, emergency services said, in the country’s fourth rail crash in less than a week.
Four people suffered minor injuries in the crash near the port city of Cartagena in Murcia region, the authorities added.
“The train hasn’t been overturned nor derailed,” a spokesperson for Murcia’s emergency services said.
The first calls about the crash came in just after noon, they added.
Spain is still reeling from a high-speed train collision on Jan 18
Two days after that, a commuter train derailed after a containment wall fell on the track due to heavy rain near the city of Barcelona, killing the driver and seriously injuring four passengers.
The main train drivers’ union called a nationwide strike over safety standards after that and a second collision in the north-eastern Catalonia region the same day on Jan 20.
On Jan 22, Spanish rail operator Adif said traffic on the line 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 did not go into more detail. REUTERS
