Excess speed caused a fatal metro-train accident in the Spanish city of Valencia, a regional minister said on Tuesday, and there are suggestions the train driver may have been ill or unconscious. At the moment of the accident on Monday the black box recorder showed the train was travelling ”too fast”, regional infrastructure minister Jose Ramon Garcia Anton said.
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/ 30 November 2005
More than 200Â 000 people were left without power on Tuesday on Spain’s Canary Islands after Tropical Storm Delta wreaked havoc on the popular winter tourist destination, killing at least seven people and causing serious damage. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Epsilon is centred about 1Â 280km east of Bermuda.