At least 56 people were killed when a train carrying 218
passengers left the track on a bend just outside the northern city of Santiago
de Compostela in Spain on Monday night.
The crash happened just yards from the city's main train
station. Thousands of people were making their way to the city ahead of a major
Christian festival which sees the streets thronged.
An eyewitness account states that a lot of those killed and
seriously hurt were crushed when the carriages began to pile on top of each
other, in the crash which happened shortly before 9pm local time.
Ricardo Montesco, who was on the train at the time, told
Cadena Ser radio station: 'It was going so quickly.
'It seems that on a curve the train started to twist, and
the wagons piled up one on top of the other.'
'A lot of people were squashed on the bottom. We tried to
squeeze out of the bottom of the wagons to get out and we realised the train
was burning.
'I was in the second wagon and there was fire. I saw
corpses.'
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