Santiago rail tragedy: Four children and 29 adults critical, 80 confirmed dead
Friday, July 26, 2013 @ 10:57 AM
THE death toll from the train crash in Galicia has risen to 80, with 33 people in a critical condition in hospital, latest reports show.
Four of them are aged under 15 and remain in the paediatric intensive care unit.
A total of 95 people were admitted to hospital following the devastating accident, eight of whom have since been discharged.
Seven people died in hospital and 73 at the scene, which witnesses described as 'hell on earth' with bodies scattered all over the line.
The Alvia high-speed rail connection was heading to the far northern ship-building town of Ferrol, in Galicia, from Madrid's Chamartín station when it derailed four kilometres south of the pilgrims' cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela.
A video on youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccu4bA0CWuw) shows the horrific smash in which it took just 11 seconds for an everyday train journey to become the greatest rail tragedy in Spain's history.
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