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Incident happend at Spain, Northwest.

A high-speed train that derailed on a curve Wednesday night in northwestern Spain has

killed at least 77 passengers and injured 141 others, reports said.

Officials said initially that the crash, which occurred on the eve of a local Christian festival, appeared to be

an accident, not terrorism. In 2004, Islamists blew up trains in Madrid, killing 191 and wounding hundreds.

The express train, carrying 218 people between Madrid and Ferrol, left the tracks at 8:42 p.m.

(2:42 p.m. ET) about two miles from the station at Santiago de Compostela, in the Galician region, 

said the government-owned railway, Renfe. The number of crewmembers was not released.

All 13 carriages derailed, and four overturned, the BBC reported. TV images showed

one car torn apart, another on fire and blanket-covered bodies beside the ruined carriages.

"A lot of people were squashed on the bottom. We tried to squeeze out of the bottom

of the wagons to get out and we realized the train was burning," passenger Ricardo Montesco

told radio station Cadena SER. "I was in the second wagon and there was fire. I saw corpses."

 

"There are bodies lying on the railway track. It's a Dante-esque scene,"

Nunez told SER, the AFP news agency reported.

Nunez said it was too soon to say what caused the accident.

CNN said an aide to the prime minister indicated that terrorism was not likely.

Photographer Xabier Martinez told the Associated Press that two injured passengers

told him they felt a strong vibration before the train jumped the track.

 

A witness told Cadena SER she heard a loud explosion just before the train derailed,

Reuters reported. That claim has not been confirmed.

Festivities were planned Thursday in Santiago de Compostola to celebrate St James,

one of Jesus's 12 apostles whose remains are claimed to buried there. Officials

said many of the travelers likely were pilgrims headed to the city, about 60 miles south of Ferrol. Officials canceled the festivities.