Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Argentina train crash

  • The 28-year-old conductor, who survived the crash, was apparently well-rested platform scrambling across the tracks to escape the wreck. It was Argentinas deadliest train accident since Feb.
  • (CBS News)
  • A packed commuter train slammed into barriers at a railway terminus in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires during rush hour Wednesday, leaving an unknown number of people dead, 550 injured, and dozens trapped in the wreckage.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • The train crash at Once station in the heart of Buenos Aires, with forty-nine dead and more than six-hundred injured, is the worst in Argentina in more than forty years. But for many it was an accident waiting to happen.
  • (Financial Times)
  • Argentinas once-extensive rail network was largely dismantled Months earlier, four people died during another rail crash.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • REPORTING FROM BUENOS AIRES -- An Argentinian federal judge promised to lead an investigation into the causes of a stunning train crash that killed at least 49 people and injured more than 600 Wednesday morning.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A commuter train slammed into a retaining barrier in a central Later trains were diverted elsewhere.
  • (Sacramento Bee)
  • Security guards stand as black smoke rises from tires, which were burned by protesters during an anti-US demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2012. Anti-American demonstrations erupted on the outskirts of Kabul for a second day.
  • (ABC News)
  • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires In September of last year , nine people were killed and more than 200 injured in a crash in Buenos Aires involving two passenger trains and a bus.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • BUENOS AIRES -- At least 40 people died and over 550 were injured when a train crashed into a busy railway station platform in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, La Nacion newspaper reported, citing a senior city official.
  • (New York Post)
  • A PACKED commuter train entering a Buenos Aires station at morning rush hour overnight smashed into a retaining wall, crumpling cars and leaving at least 49 dead, 600 injured and dozens trapped in the twisted wreckage.
  • (News.com.au)

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