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Title: Breaking News - Incredible escape - high-speed train collision shreds rail car
Post by: NewsCaster on Jan 22, 2013, 10:30 PM
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-130122-portugal-train-collision-jsa-3.photoblog900.jpg)Stringer / ReutersRescue workers stand at the site of a train crash in Granja do Ulmeiro on Jan. 22. (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-130122-portugal-train-collision-jsa-4.photoblog900.jpg)Miguel Teixeira / APA train sits beneath the carriage of another train after they collided at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.Emergency services say a high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter a station in central Portugal, derailing several carriages leaving a pile of wreckage on Portugal’s main north-south line, slightly injuring 21 people. Officials said the local train was waiting to pull into a station near Coimbra, 120 miles north of the capital, Lisbon, when the northbound intercity train slammed into it from behind at 9.15 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Monday

--The Associated Press(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-130122-portugal-train-collision-jsa-2.photoblog900.jpg)Miguel Teixeira / APA worker walks by the wreckage at the scene of a train crash at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.Follow @NBCNewsPictures (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsPictures)  Previously on PhotoBlog:

A high-speed train from Lisbon rear-ends a local train in Granja do Ulmeiro, Portugal, derailing several cars and injuring at least 13 people. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.1commentExplore related topics: portugal (http://www.theinfostride.com/portugal), world-news (http://www.theinfostride.com/world-news), train-collision (http://www.theinfostride.com/train-collision)
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