Report: Dozens passed in Argentina sight crash
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Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) — At slightest 49 people were killed and some-more than 600 people were harmed Wednesday when a sight plowed into a separator during a Buenos Aires station, state media said.
The series of casualties could increase, puncture services executive Alberto Crescenti said, according to a state-run Telam news agency.
Shaken passengers told reporters a pile-up sounded like a explosve blast.
“We all fell to a ground. It was horrible,” one lady said.
Officials were questioning what caused a crash, pronounced Buenos Aires Trains, that runs a rail service.
“The association sends a condolences to a family members of a defunct passengers and stays really endangered about a health of all a harmed people,” Buenos Aires Trains pronounced in a statement.
Authorities trust there were problems with a train’s brakes that caused it to pound into a separator during a station, Transportation Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi said.
The packaged rush-hour sight was roving during 26 kilometers per hour (16 mph) when it crashed around 8:30 a.m., he said.
Passengers emerged bruised, some with critical injuries, Schiavi said.
Video from a stage showed rescuers meddling open windows of a disfigured sight to strech trapped passengers.
Crews carried draining victims on stretchers by a bustling station.
“Suddenly we listened a bang, and many people fell on tip of me. we consider we had some-more than 10 people above me. we got out as fast as we could,” a newcomer named Esteban told a state news agency. “I usually saw harmed people and listened screams.”
CNN’s Jose Manuel Rodriguez contributed to this report.






