A passenger train derailed on Tuesday after a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks due to heavy rain near the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing the train driver and seriously injuring four passengers, a fire service official said.
The incident occurred just two days after a collision and derailment of a high-speed train near Adamuz, in the province of Córdoba, in the south of the country, which killed 42 people.
Claudi Gallardo, inspector with the Catalan regional Fire Brigade, said in comments broadcast from the scene on the accident’s television coverage that 37 people were injured, four of them in critical condition, and the train driver died. He said that all passengers had been evacuated from the train.
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Twenty ambulances were dispatched to the scene in Gelida, on the outskirts of Barcelona, as well as 38 firefighting units, emergency services authorities said.
The derailment of the suburban train occurred in an area plagued by under-resourced railway services and frequent incidents.
In a separate incident on Tuesday night, traffic between Blanes and Maçanet-Massanes, south of the city of Girona—also part of Barcelona’s suburban rail network—was interrupted “due to a train axle that came off the rails,” the Spanish railway operator Adif said in a statement on X.
