{"id":255192,"date":"2026-01-21T00:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:20:06","slug":"one-dead-four-injured-in-train-accident-near-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255192\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, four injured in train accident near Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s second deadly rail accident in days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are four seriously injured and one person who has passed away,&#8221; a spokesman for the fire service in the northeastern region of Catalonia, Claudi Gallardo, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the commuter train has died, according to a report from Spanish State news agency EFE.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came as the country is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2026\/0120\/1554014-spain-train-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing an accident involving a passenger train&#8221; in the municipality of Gelida, the region&#8217;s civil protection agency posted on its social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Catalan emergency services said their teams are &#8220;treating at least 15 injured people&#8221; with 11 ambulances at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and four others have been seriously injured after a train near Barcelona crashed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-255192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}