Spain Train Crash Kills 77 Rescuers Scour Debris

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[size=4] Rescuers continued to scour the smoking wreckage of tangled steel early Thursday after a train hurtled off the tracks in northwestern Spain killing at least 77 people and injuring 143.[/size]
[size=4]Emergency workers have recovered 73 bodies from the wreckage of the train while four other victims died in hospital, a spokesman for the Galicia regional high court told AFP.[/size]
[size=4]Four carriages overturned in the smash, smoke billowing from the remnants, as bodies were lain out under blankets along the tracks.[/size]
[size=4]The wagons piled into each other and folded up like an accordion. One was ripped apart by the force of the smash, one of its ends pushed upwards into the air.[/size]
[size=4]Disaster struck at 8:42 pm (1842 GMT) as the train carrying 218 passengers and four staff was about to enter Santiago de Compostela station in the northwestern region of Galicia.[/size]
[size=4]Francisco Otero, 39, who was inside his parents' home just beside the section of the track where the accident happened, said he "heard a huge bang. As if there had been an earthquake."[/size]
[size=4]"The first thing I saw was the body of a woman. I had never seen a corpse before. But above all what caught my attention was that there was a lot of silence, some smoke and a small fire," he told AFP.[/size]
[size=4]"My neighbours tried to pull people who were trapped inside the carriages with clubs and they eventually got them out with a hand saw. It was unreal."[/size]
[size=4]The train had left Madrid and was heading for the northwestern town of Ferrol as the Galicia region was preparing celebrations in honour of its patron saint James.[/size]

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