Spain train accident: Toll rises to 77

Madrid: A Spanish court official says 77 people were killed when a passenger train derailed on a curvy stretch of track in northwestern Spain in what was one of the country’s worst rail accidents in decades.

[caption id=“attachment_985335” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] The mangled bogey. AP.[/caption] Maria Pardo Rios, spokeswoman for the Galicia region’s main court, said Thursday that 73 people were found dead at the scene of the accident and four died at hospitals. At least 140 people were injured in the derailment late Wednesday. AP