60 injured in massive suburban train collision in Buenos Aires

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At least 60 people were injured on Friday (May 10) when a seven-car passenger train collided with a locomotive and an empty train car in Buenos Aires.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 At least 60 people were injured when a seven-car passenger train collided with a locomotive

00:06 and an empty train car in Buenos Aires on Friday.

00:09 Paramedics said they treated about 100 passengers, with 30 of them being transferred to hospitals

00:14 for serious injuries.

00:16 "Be careful, grandpa.

00:18 Perfect."

00:19 Authorities said the incident happened on an overpass in the Palermo neighborhood at

00:24 10.31 a.m.

00:25 "Two people were taken by helicopter to the Santollani Hospital with cranial and

00:32 thoracic trauma.

00:33 They were lucid, but they were the first to fly.

00:37 The rest were sequentially evacuated.

00:40 The first to go were the red codes, with injuries of various kinds.

00:45 The second were the yellows.

00:46 The green ones were handled by the team of human factors, psychiatrists and psychologists.

00:50 So in total we have treated some."

00:53 State-run train operator Trenes Argentinos said its services on the San Martin line had

00:59 been halted due to the incident.

01:01 Media reports said the collision occurred when the passenger train struck the cars of

01:06 the parked train, which was undergoing maintenance.

01:10 Authorities said they have begun their investigation into the incident.

01:14 "We have been investigating this incident for a year now.

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01:20 We have been investigating this incident for a year now.

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