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Reuters, 5/10/24

 

Sixty injured in Buenos Aires train collision

 

BUENOS AIRES, May 10 (Reuters) - At least 60 people were injured on Friday when a seven-car passenger train collided with a locomotive and an empty train car in Buenos Aires, local authorities said, without giving details of how serious the injuries were.

 

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Television and drone footage showed the trains head-to-head on an overpass in the Palermo neighborhood of the Argentine capital.  . . .

 

 

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Associated Press, 5/10/24

A train in central Buenos Aires strikes a boxcar on the track, injuring dozens

 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At least 90 people were injured in Argentina’s capital when a passenger train struck an empty boxcar on the tracks and derailed Friday, authorities said, a rare collision that fueled questions about basic safety.

 

While it was not immediately clear why the idled boxcar had been on the bridge, Argentina’s railway union said several meters (yards) of copper cable used to carry power along the tracks had been stolen from the railway, disabling the signaling system intended to prevent such accidents.

 

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“We have been demanding for 10 days that the stolen signaling cables be repaired,” rail union leader Omar Maturano told the country’s independent Radio Con Vos station. “The government said there was no money for spare parts.”

 

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