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From ABC News:
A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security
wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off
the tracks like dominos, killing 80 people and maiming dozens more,
according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained Thursday.
An Associated Press analysis of video images suggests the train may have
been traveling at twice the speed limit, or more, along that curved
stretch of track. The unanswered question is: Why?
Spain's government said two probes have been launched into the train's
derailment Wednesday night on its approach to this Christian festival
city in northwest Spain, where planned celebrations in honor of one of
Jesus' disciples gave way to a living nightmare.
The regional government in Galicia confirmed that police planned to
question the 52-year-old train driver, in Santiago de Compostela's main
hospital with unspecified injuries, as both a witness and as a possible
suspect, but cautioned that possible faults in safety equipment were
also being investigated.
The Interior Ministry raised the death toll to 80 in what was Spain's
deadliest train wreck in four decades. The Galician government said 94
others remained hospitalized in six regional hospitals, 31 of them —
including four children — in critical condition.
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