At least 60 people were injured on Friday (May 10) when a seven-car passenger train collided with a locomotive and an empty train car in Buenos Aires.
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00:00 At least 60 people were injured when a seven-car passenger train collided with a locomotive
00:06 and an empty train car in Buenos Aires on Friday.
00:09 Paramedics said they treated about 100 passengers, with 30 of them being transferred to hospitals
00:14 for serious injuries.
00:16 "Be careful, grandpa.
00:18 Perfect."
00:19 Authorities said the incident happened on an overpass in the Palermo neighborhood at
00:24 10.31 a.m.
00:25 "Two people were taken by helicopter to the Santollani Hospital with cranial and
00:32 thoracic trauma.
00:33 They were lucid, but they were the first to fly.
00:37 The rest were sequentially evacuated.
00:40 The first to go were the red codes, with injuries of various kinds.
00:45 The second were the yellows.
00:46 The green ones were handled by the team of human factors, psychiatrists and psychologists.
00:50 So in total we have treated some."
00:53 State-run train operator Trenes Argentinos said its services on the San Martin line had
00:59 been halted due to the incident.
01:01 Media reports said the collision occurred when the passenger train struck the cars of
01:06 the parked train, which was undergoing maintenance.
01:10 Authorities said they have begun their investigation into the incident.
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