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One dead, four injured in train accident near Barcelona

Catalan emergency services said their teams are 'treating at least 15 injured people' with 11 ambulances at the scene (stock image)
Catalan emergency services said their teams are 'treating at least 15 injured people' with 11 ambulances at the scene (stock image)

One person has died and four others have been seriously injured after a train near Barcelona crashed into the rubble of a collapsed wall, firefighters have said, Spain's second deadly rail accident in days.

"There are four seriously injured and one person who has passed away," a spokesman for the fire service in the northeastern region of Catalonia, Claudi Gallardo, told reporters.

The driver of the commuter train has died, according to a report from Spanish State news agency EFE.

The incident came as the country is still reeling from the collision of two high-speed trains on Sunday in Andalusia, in the south of the country, which left at least 42 people dead.

"A retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing an accident involving a passenger train" in the municipality of Gelida, the region's civil protection agency posted on its social media accounts.

Catalan emergency services said their teams are "treating at least 15 injured people" with 11 ambulances at the scene.