Buenos Aires(NDTV): At least 99 people were hurt Saturday, some seriously, in a train crash at the same Buenos Aires commuter rail stop where a deadly accident killed dozens just last year, officials said.
“Ninety-nine patients have been treated at Buenos Aires hospitals due to the accident,” said local health chief Graciela Reybaud.
Security chief Sergio Berni told that “there are no fatalities for now at the Once train station in Buenos Aires, the same station where 51 people died and 700 were injured in February 2012, when a train slammed into a retaining wall.”
Railway Officials said they could not immediately determine the cause of the accident, but at least one witness reported that the train appeared to have trouble braking at two previous stops.
Injured riders were rushed to about a dozen nearby hospitals via some 30 ambulances and two helicopters.Television footage showed various railway cars that had left the track and were on the platform after the train apparently failed to stop at the end of the line.
Authorities said it was fortunate that, unlike the earlier major mishaps, Saturdays crash did not happen on a busy weekday, and that the train was only partially full.
