Saudara-mara di luar rumah mayat teresak-esak dibuat Kemalangan Sepanyol . . .

Photo: AP Kakitangan kecemasan bertindak balas terhadap kejadian kegelinciran kereta api di Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol, pada Rabu 24 Julai, 2013. Sebuah kereta api tergelincir di barat laut Sepanyol pada malam Rabu, menggulingkan kereta penumpang di sisi mereka dan meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya satu terbuka koyak sebagai asap naik ke udara. Puluhan dikhuatiri mati, dengan kemungkinan banyak yang cedera (Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

1WC’sChannel - Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol (AP) “Saudara-mara di luar rumah mayat teresak-esak dibuat kemalangan Sepanyol” Saudara-mara mangsa daripada kemalangan kereta api di barat laut Sepanyol menangis teresak-esak dan memeluk setiap yang lain Jumaat berhampiran rumah mayat sementara di arena sukan untuk mangsa-mangsa sebagai jumlah kematian meningkat kepada 78 dan penyiasat cuba untuk menentukan punca.

Kereta api melonjak trek dan sekurang-kurangnya seorang penumpang memberitahu sebuah stesen radio bahawa ia kelihatan akan tersangat laju kerana ia pergi ketara manakala menghampiri stesen di bandar ini, kuil Katolik pada malam perayaan agama yang besar.

73 orang ditemui mati di tempat kemalangan itu dan 4 mati di hospital, kata Maria Pardo Rios, jurucakap mahkamah utama di rantau Galicia. Seorang lain juga mati, menjadikan jumlah kepada 78, tetapi tiada maklumat segera boleh didapati di mana, kata seorang pegawai Kementerian Dalam Negeri yang bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana dasar kementerian.

Sekurang-kurangnya 141 orang cedera - beberapa kritikal - selepas kereta api 8 pengangkutan membawa 218 penumpang tergelincir kira-kira sejam sebelum matahari terbenam malam Rabu. Pihak berkuasa tidak mengenal pasti punca-punca kemalangan yang mungkin, tetapi dengan seorang jurucakap Kementerian Dalam Negeri Sepanyol Khamis kemungkinan bahawa kegagalan itu disebabkan oleh serangan pengganas telah diperintah keluar. Beliau juga bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana dasar kementerian.

Ia adalah kemalangan kereta api dahsyat Sepanyol sejak 1972, apabila kereta api berlanggar dengan sebuah bas di barat daya Sepanyol, membunuh 86 orang dan mencederakan 112. Perdana Menteri Mariano Rajoy, yang dilahirkan di Santiago de Compostela, melawat tempat kejadian kemalangan Khamis dengan pekerja penyelamat dan kemudian pergi ke hospital untuk melawat penumpang-penumpang yang cedera.

Rajoy dgn suram memberitahu pemberita bahawa "bagi yang berasal dari Santiago, seperti saya, ini adalah hari yang menyedihkan." Beliau berkata siasatan telah dilancarkan oleh pihak berkuasa kehakiman dan Kementerian Awam Kerja Raya untuk menentukan punca secepat mungkin tetapi enggan untuk mengambil soalan daripada pemberita.

Pegawai-pegawai di bandar membatalkan untuk upacara perayaan agama tahunan yang menarik puluhan ribu orang Kristian dari seluruh DUNIA. "24 Julai tidak lagi akan menjadi malam hari perayaan tetapi satu memperingati salah satu hari yang paling menyedihkan dalam sejarah Galicia," kata Alberto Nunez Feijoo, presiden rantau di mana Galicia Santiago de Compostela ialah ibu kotanya.

Pekerja penyelamat bermalam mencari melalui kereta terhancur bersama trek, dan Pardo berkata ia adalah tidak mustahil bahawa kematian boleh pergi lebih tinggi. Ramai yang mati telah dibawa ke rumah mayat sementara ditubuhkan di arena sukan dalaman terbesar di bandar ini, di mana polis dan mahkamah pegawai telah mengenal pasti mayat-mayat. Saudara-mara mangsa menangis teresak-esak dan memeluk antara satu sama lain di luar di tempat berdekatan untuk maklumat keluarga mencari berita tentang orang-orang yang mereka tersayang hilang.

Seorang pegawai kesihatan serantau Galicia, Rocio Mosquera, kepada pemberita pada sidang akhbar awal hari ini bahawa 141 penumpang dari kereta api telah dirawat di kawasan hospital, dengan keadaan mereka yang terdiri daripada kecederaan ringan kepada yang serius. Ada yang masih dalam beberajam pembedahan selepas kemalangan itu, manakala yang lain telah dirawat dan dibebaskan.

Sebagai subuh tiba, kren membawa ke tempat kejadian itu telah digunakan untuk mengangkat kereta di trek dan pekerja penyelamat dilihat mengumpul bagasi penumpang dan memasukkannya ke dalam sebuah trak di sebelah trek.

Tapak itu sendiri adalah satu babak seram serta-merta selepas kemalangan. Asap dari sekurang-kurangnya satu kereta yang terbakar; lain memecah masuk ke 2 bahagian. Penduduk di kejiranan bandar di samping trek berjuang untuk membantu mangsa keluar dari garabak yang terguling.

Pekerja penyelamat menyusun mayat dalam selimut bersama trek dan beberapa penumpang ditarik keluar dari tingkap yang pecah. Imej televisyen menunjukkan seorang lelaki di atas pengangkutan berbaring, menggunakan beliung untuk cuba untuk menghancurkan melalui tingkap. Penduduk berkata penyelamat yang lain mengunakan batu.

Pengendali kereta api milik negara Renfe katanya dalam satu kenyataan yang tidak ditentukan bilangan kakitangan juga di atas kenderaan kereta api semasa 08:41 (1841 GMT) kemalangan di seksyen landasan kira-kira 2.5 batu (4 kilometer) dari Santiago de Compostela yang datang dalam talian 2 tahun yang lalu. Media Sepanyol berkata kereta api itu mempunyai dua konduktor kapal dan bahawa kedua-dua terselamat.

Renfe dan Adif, syarikat milik kerajaan yang menguruskan trek, isyarat dan infrastruktur kereta api yang lain, telah bekerjasama dengan hakim yang telah dilantik untuk menyiasat kemalangan itu, Renfe katanya. Ia adalah yang ke-3 bencana rel utama bulan ini. Pada 12 Julai, 6 orang terbunuh dan hampir 200 cedera apabila 4 kereta api penumpang tergelincir di selatan Paris.

Pada 6 Julai, 72 kereta membawa minyak mentah tergelincir di Lac-Megantic, Ontario, mencetuskan letupan dan kebakaran yang mengorbankan 47 orang. Jemaah Katolik berkumpul di Santiago de Compostela setiap tahun untuk meraikan perayaan menghormati St James, pengikut Isa yang masih dikatakan berehat di kuil. Bandar ini merupakan titik perhimpunan utama untuk setia yang membuat ia ke akhir El Camino de Santiago laluan ziarah yang telah menarik orang Kristian sejak Zaman Pertengahan.

Kemalangan mencipta adegan yang "Dante-esque," kata Feijoo. Beliau mengisytiharkan 7 hari berkabung untuk menghormati mangsa-mangsa. Beberapa penumpang cedera berkata, mereka merasakan getaran yang kuat sebelum kereta melonjak trek, kata Xabier Martinez, seorang jurugambar yang bercakap dengan mereka selepas tiba di tempat kejadian sebagai pekerja penyelamat mengeluarkan berpuluh-puluh mayat.

Penumpang Ricardo Montero memberitahu stesen radio Cadena Ser bahawa "apabila kereta api sampai selekoh bahawa ia mula terbalik, banyak kali, dengan beberapa gerabak berakhir di atas yang lainnya, meninggalkan ramai orang yang terperangkap di bawah. Kami terpaksa mendapatkan ianya di bawah gerabak untuk membawa keluar. "

Seorang lagi penumpang, Sergio Prego, memberitahu Cadena Ser kereta api "mengembara sangat cepat" sebelum ia tergelincir dan kereta berbalik terbalik. "Saya amat bernasib baik kerana saya salah satu daripada beberapa dapat berjalan keluar," katanya.

The Alvia 730 siri kereta api bermula dari Madrid dan dijadual menamatkan perjalanan di El Ferrol, kira-kira 95 kilometer (60 batu) ke utara Santiago de Compostela. Alvias adalah kelajuan yang tinggi tetapi tidak pergi secepat peluru terpantas Sepanyol keretapi dipanggil Aves.

Kelajuan Alvia maksimum 250 kph (155 mph) pada trek yang dibuat khas untuk Aves, dan mereka bergerak pada kelajuan maksimum 220 kilometer sejam (137 mph) di landasan tolok normal.

Lain-lain kemalangan kereta api utama di Sepanyol sejak beberapa dekad termasuk kemalangan 1944 di kereta api dalam perjalanan dari Madrid ke rantau Galicia yang mengorbankan 78 orang.

Satu kemalangan kereta bawah tanah di bandar selatan Valencia membunuh 43 orang pada tahun 2006 dan telah dipersalahkan pada kelajuan yang berlebihan. Pengeboman di kereta api Madrid dijalankan pada tahun 2004 membunuh 191 orang.

Clendenning dilaporkan dari Madrid. Ciaran Giles menyumbang dari Madrid.

Photo: AP Seorang penyelamat kecemasan berjalan bersama-sama kereta api tergelincir di Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol, pada Khamis Julai 25, 2013. Sebuah kereta api penumpang tergelincir malam Rabu di sepanjang curvy trek di barat laut Sepanyol, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 40 orang yang ditangkap di dalam kenderaan yang terguling dan mencederakan sekurang-kurangnya 140 dalam kemalangan kereta api terburuk di negara ini dalam beberapa dekad, kata pegawai (An emergency rescuer walks along an derailed train in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. A passenger train derailed Wednesday night on a curvy stretch of track in northwestern Spain, killing at least 40 people caught inside toppled cars and injuring at least 140 in the country's worst rail accident in decades, officials said – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Photo: AP Kakitangan kecemasan bertindak balas terhadap kejadian kegelinciran kereta api di Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol, pada Rabu 24 Julai, 2013. Sebuah kereta api tergelincir di barat laut Sepanyol pada malam Rabu, menggulingkan kenderaan penumpang di sisi mereka dan meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya satu terbuka koyak sebagai asap naik ke udara. Puluhan dikhuatiri mati, dengan kemungkinan banyak yang cedera (Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Photo: AP Kakitangan kecemasan bertindak balas terhadap kejadian kegelinciran kereta api di Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol, pada Rabu 24 Julai, 2013. Sebuah kereta api tergelincir di barat laut Sepanyol pada malam Rabu, menggulingkan kereta penumpang di sisi mereka dan meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya satu terbuka koyak sebagai asap naik ke udara. Puluhan dikhuatiri mati, dengan kemungkinan lebih bayak yang cedera (Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Photo: AP Seorang wanita dipindahkan oleh kakitangan kecemasan di tempat kejadian kegelinciran kereta api di Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol, pada rabu, 24 Julai, 2013. Sebuah kereta api tergelincir di barat laut Sepanyol pada malam Rabu, menggulingkan kereta penumpang di sisi mereka dan meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya satu terbuka koyak sebagai asap naik ke udara. Puluhan dikhuatiri mati, dengan kemungkinan lebih banyak yang tercedera (A woman is evacuated by emergency personnel at the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Photo: AP Kakitangan kecemasan bertindak balas terhadap kejadian kegelinciran kereta api di Santiago de Compostela, Sepanyol, pada Rabu 24 Julai, 2013. Sebuah kereta api tergelincir di barat laut Sepanyol pada malam Rabu, menggulingkan kereta penumpang di sisi mereka dan meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya satu terbuka koyak sebagai asap naik ke udara. Puluhan dikhuatiri mati, dengan kemungkinan lebih banyak yang cedera (Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, toppling passenger cars on their sides and leaving at least one torn open as smoke rose into the air. Dozens were feared dead, with possibly even more injured – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Relatives sob outside morgue made for Spain crash

1WC’sChannel - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) Relatives of victims from a train crash in northwestern Spain sobbed and hugged each other Friday near a makeshift morgue in a sports arena for the victims as the death toll rose to 78 and investigators tried to determine the cause.

The train jumped the tracks and at least one passenger told a radio station that it appeared to be going very fast as it went into a pronounced curve while approaching the station in this Catholic shrine city on the eve of a major religious festival.

Seventy-three people were found dead at the scene of the accident and four died in hospitals, said Maria Pardo Rios, spokeswoman for the Galicia region's main court. Another person also died, bringing the toll to 78, but no information was immediately available on where, said an Interior Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of ministry policy.

At least 141 people were injured - some critically - after the eight-carriage train carrying 218 passengers derailed about an hour before sunset Wednesday night. Authorities did not identify any possible accident causes, but a spokeswoman with Spain's Interior Ministry said Thursday that the possibility that the derailment was caused by a terrorist attack had been ruled out. She also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ministry policy.

It was Spain's deadliest train accident since 1972, when a train collided with a bus in southwestern Spain, killing 86 people and injuring 112. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who was born in Santiago de Compostela, toured the crash scene Thursday with rescue workers and then went to a hospital to visit injured passengers.

A grim Rajoy told reporters that "for a native of Santiago, like me, this is the saddest day." He said investigations had been launched by judicial authorities and the Public Works Ministry to determine the cause as quickly as possible but declined to take questions from reporters.

Officials in the city canceled ceremonies for its annual religious festival that attracts tens of thousands of Christians from around the world. "July 24 will no longer be the eve of a day of celebration but rather one commemorating one of the saddest days in the history of Galicia," said Alberto Nunez Feijoo, president of the region of Galicia where Santiago de Compostela is the capital.

Rescue workers spent the night searching through smashed cars alongside the tracks, and Pardo said it was possible that the death toll could go higher. Many of the dead were taken to a makeshift morgue set up in the city's largest indoor sports arena, where police and court officials were identifying the bodies. Relatives of victims sobbed and hugged each other outside at a nearby information point for families seeking news about their missing loved ones.

A regional Galicia health official, Rocio Mosquera, told reporters at a press conference early Thursday that 141 passengers from the train had been treated at area hospitals, with their conditions ranging from light injuries to serious. Some were still in surgery hours after the crash, while others had been treated and released.

As dawn arrived, cranes brought to the scene were used to lift the cars off the tracks and rescue workers were seen collecting passenger luggage and putting it into a truck next to the tracks. The site itself was a scene of horror immediately after the crash. Smoke billowed from at least one car which caught fire; another broke into two parts. Residents of the urban neighborhood alongside the tracks struggled to help victims out of the toppled cars.

Rescue workers lined up bodies covered in blankets alongside the tracks and some passengers were pulled out of broken windows. Television images showed one man atop a carriage lying on its side, using a pickaxe to try to smash through a window. Residents said other rescuers used rocks.

State-owned train operator Renfe said in a statement an unspecified number of staff were also on board the train during the 8.41 p.m. (1841 GMT) crash on a section of tracks about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) from Santiago de Compostela that came online two years ago. Spanish media said the train had two conductors aboard and that both survived.

Renfe and Adif, the state-owned company which manages tracks, signals and other railway infrastructure, were cooperating with a judge who has been appointed to investigate the accident, Renfe said. It was the third major rail disaster this month. On July 12, six people were killed and nearly 200 were injured when four cars of a passenger train derailed south of Paris.

On July 6, 72 cars carrying crude oil derailed in Lac-Megantic, Ontario, setting off explosions and fires which killed 47 people. Catholic pilgrims converge on the Santiago de Compostela annually to celebrate a festival honoring St. James, the disciple of Jesus whose remains are said to rest in a shrine. The city is the main gathering point for the faithful who make it to the end of the El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route that has drawn Christians since the Middle Ages.

The accident created a scene that was "Dante-esque," Feijoo said. He declared seven days of mourning to honor the victims. Several injured passengers said they felt a strong vibration just before the cars jumped the tracks, said Xabier Martinez, a photographer who talked with them after arriving at the scene as rescue workers were removing dozens of bodies.

Passenger Ricardo Montero told the Cadena Ser radio station that "when the train reached that bend it began to flip over, many times, with some carriages ending up on top of others, leaving many people trapped below. We had to get under the carriages to get out."

Another passenger, Sergio Prego, told Cadena Ser the train "traveled very fast" just before it derailed and the cars flipped upside down, on their sides and into the air. "I've been very lucky because I'm one of the few able to walk out," he said.

The Alvia 730 series train started from Madrid and was scheduled to end its journey at El Ferrol, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Santiago de Compostela. Alvias are high-speed but do not go as fast as Spain's fastest bullet trains called AVEs.

The maximum Alvia speed is 250 kph (155 mph) on tracks made especially for the AVEs, and they travel at a maximum speed of 220 kph (137 mph) on normal gauge rails. Other major train crashes in Spain over the decades include a 1944 accident on a train traveling from Madrid to the Galicia region that killed 78 people. A subway crash in the southern city of Valencia killed 43 people in 2006 and was blamed on excessive speed. The Madrid train bombings carried out in 2004 killed 191 people.

Clendenning reported from Madrid. Ciaran Giles contributed from Madrid.