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Posted on January 20, 2026
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A train derailment near Barcelona killed the driver and injured four. The accident highlights ongoing rail issues. Emergency services responded swiftly.
BARCELONA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A commuter train derailed on Tuesday after a containment wall fell on the track due to heavy rain near the Spanish city of Barcelona, killing the driver and seriously injuring four passengers, a fire brigade official said.
The accident occurred just two days after a high-speed train collision and derailment near Adamuz in the southern Córdoba province that killed 42 people.
Claudi Gallardo, inspector at the Catalonia regional fire department, said in televised comments from the site of the crash that 37 people had been injured, four of them seriously, and the driver had died. He said all passengers had been removed from the train.
Twenty ambulances were dispatched to the site in Gelida on the outskirts of Barcelona along with 38 firefighter units, emergency services authorities said.
The suburban train derailment occurred in an area long plagued by underfunded rail 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 the Barcelona commuter rail network - was interrupted "due to a train axle coming off the track", Spanish rail operator Adif said in a statement on X.
(Reporting by Joan Faus and Sergio Goncalves; Editing by Aislinn Laing and Jamie Freed)
A derailment occurs when a train leaves its tracks, which can happen due to various factors such as track defects, equipment failure, or obstacles on the track.
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