Alicante-Madrid train derails provoking passenger terror
Thursday, July 3, 2014 @ 2:03 PM
A TRAIN linking the cities of Alicante and Madrid has derailed due to flooding on the line, emergency services confirm.
Torrential rain in the centre of the country last night (Wednesday) left deep puddles on the track causing the carriage to veer off its rails in Alpera (Albacete province) at around 19.45hrs.
None of the 220 passengers or staff were injured, but most experienced moments of sheer terror as images of the Galicia rail crash which killed 79 people last year – the worst in Spain since the 1940s – flashed before them.
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