24 Hurt as trains collide in Cuba

24 Hurt as trains collide in Cuba
Published November 02, 2011
EFE

Havana – Two-dozen people were injured, one of them seriously, when two
trains collided Wednesday in the Cuban capital, state television said.

A freight train headed west toward Pinar del Rio and an eastbound
passenger train plowed into each other near the campus of Jose Antonio
Echeverria University.

The injured were taken to four different hospitals in the capital, state
television said, adding that authorities had already begun an
investigation to determine the cause of the crash.

Nineteen people died and 149 others were hurt last year in 106 separate
accidents on Cuban railways, according to official reports acknowledging
an increase in such incidents in recent years.

Most of last year's accidents involved trains' running over cattle or
people or collisions with vehicles at level crossings.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/11/02/24-hurt-as-trains-collide-in-cuba/