A train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has killed 49 people with hundreds more injured, police say.The train slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station during the morning rush hour."We assume that there was some fault in the brakes", Transportation Secretary JP Schiavi said.Eyewitnesses said the train was travelling fast. Dozens of people remain trapped."The train was full and the impact was tremendous," a passenger identified as Ezequiel told local television.Medics at the scene were overwhelmed by the casualties, he added.
Federal Police Commissioner Nestor Rodriguez says the dead include 48 adults and one child. It's Argentina's highest death toll from a train accident since 1970, when 200 were killed in a train collision. Alberto Crescenti, the city's emergency medical director, said at least 550 people were injured, and said that 30 people remain trapped inside the first car, where rescuers carved open the roof and set up a pulley system to extract them.
The commuter train came in too fast and hit the barrier at the end of the platform at about 12 mph (20 kph), smashing the front of the engine and crunching the leading cars behind it; one car penetrated nearly 20 feet (six meters) into the next, Argentina's transportation secretary, J.P. Schiavi told reporters at the station.
Emergency workers are working to extract dozens of people trapped inside the first car, said health official Alberto Crescenti.Survivors told local media that many people had been injured in a jumble of metal and glass.Some suffered fractures and other serious injuries.The accident is Argentina's worst train crash since 1970.In September 2011, 11 people died when a commuter train in Buenos Aires hit a bus crossing the tracks and then hit a second train coming into a station.
Emergency workers are working to extract dozens of people trapped inside the first car, said health official Alberto Crescenti.Survivors told local media that many people had been injured in a jumble of metal and glass.Some suffered fractures and other serious injuries.The accident is Argentina's worst train crash since 1970.In September 2011, 11 people died when a commuter train in Buenos Aires hit a bus crossing the tracks and then hit a second train coming into a station.
