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Scores are killed and injured in a train derailment in NW Spain.
By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News
At least 35 people are dead and 60 injured after a train crashed Wednesday evening near Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, the head of Spain's Galicia region, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, told media.
The train, a high-speed train run by Alvia, was traveling between Madrid and Ferrol.
Feijoo said it was too early to say what had caused the derailment.
A statement released by Renfe, a?state-owned company that operates freight and passenger trains, read:?"An Alvia train traveling between Madrid and Ferrol has derailed upon entering the station of Santiago de Compostela at 8:41 p.m. (local time). The train was traveling on high-speed tracks carrying a total of 218 passengers in addition to the crew."
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Rescue workers pull victims from a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013.
A reporter on the scene said that all the train cars had derailed and the site was strewn with bodies covered with blankets, according to Reuters.?
The Spanish daily El Mundo reported that rescue teams at the scene were working to free those who might still be stuck inside the toppled cars. A plume of smoke could be seen from a distance, the newspaper said.?
A witness told a Spanish radio station she first heard a loud explosion and then saw the train derail, according to Reuters.
A Spanish government spokeswoman said the country's prime minister was due to visit the site of the accident Thursday morning.?
"[Prime Minister Mariano]?Rajoy is in an emergency meeting with the deputy prime minister, the interior minister and the public works minister," she told Reuters. "He will visit the site tomorrow morning."?
This is a developing story.?
Reuters contributed to this report.?
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