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Spain Commuter Train Crash Injures 48

by Reuters

   MADRID --

   A commuter train crashed into a railway buffer in Barcelona's Francia
   station, injuring 48 people, five of those seriously, emergency
   services said on Friday. There were no deaths reported.

   At least 18 of the injured need hospital attention, emergency services
   said. The driver was among the injured, they said.

   The train was coming from Sant Vicenc de Calders village in the
   province of Tarragona on the R2 line of the Rodalies commuter rail
   service, emergency services said.

   The cause of the crash was not immediately known.