Spain train crash kills at least 39 and injures more than 150
Collision near southern city of Córdoba is country’s worst rail accident in more than a decade...
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Collision near southern city of Córdoba is country’s worst rail accident in more than a decade...
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Rescuers have retrieved remains of many more victims from a gutted mall in Pakistan's Karachi, with dozens still missing. The cause of the disaster is still not known....
The crash in Catalonia in northeastern Spain came just two days after a separate deadly train collision killed at least 42 people in the country's south and injured dozens more....
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