Vancouver Sun

Runaway commuter train smashes into wall, 49 killed

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Rescue workers cut through a wrecked commuter train Wednesday to reach passengers who were crushed inside when it plowed into a retaining wall at a terminus, killing 49 people and injuring 600. “In the first car, there was a human wall,” a firefighte­r said, likening the heaped- up bodies to the scene of a 2004 Buenos Aires disco fire that left 194 dead. Carrying some 2,000 people during rush hour, the train apparently lost its brakes as it pulled into the terminus of a rail line linking the centre of Buenos Aires to the city’s populous western suburbs. Failing to stop, it crashed head on into a retaining wall, driving the second car seven metres deep into the lead car.

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