At least 30 passengers were hospitalized after a passenger train in Buenos Aires collided with a repair train on Friday, with two of them in critical condition, according to emergency officials.
“No one has died,” declared Mayor Jorge Macri of Buenos Aires. Following the train’s collision with a locomotive in the Palermo district, all passengers were evacuated, according to the SAME emergency service.
On the rails of a railroad bridge, a seven-car passenger train and a maintenance train crashed at approximately 10:30 am (1330 GMT) in the Palermo area.
“The locomotive and first passenger car derailed,” the state-owned Trenes Argentinos (TA) railway company said in a statement.
After the crash, emergency officials stated that 30 individuals had been hospitalized; however, local health officials later increased that number to 57.
A helicopter was used to transfer two critically injured individuals who had suffered head trauma to hospitals, according to emergency services official Alberto Crescenti.
He noted that by Friday evening, most of the other victims had been released from the hospital.
News images displayed a train car that had been torn apart at one end and was leaning against the railroad bridge’s metal rails. It was not obvious if it belonged to the repair or passenger train.
