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  • 22
    Jan
    2013
    9:58am, EST

    Incredible escape - high-speed train collision shreds rail car

    Stringer / Reuters

    Rescue workers stand at the site of a train crash in Granja do Ulmeiro on Jan. 22.

    Miguel Teixeira / AP

    A train sits beneath the carriage of another train after they collided at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.

    Emergency services say a high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter a station in central Portugal, derailing several carriages leaving a pile of wreckage on Portugal’s main north-south line, slightly injuring 21 people. Officials said the local train was waiting to pull into a station near Coimbra, 120 miles north of the capital, Lisbon, when the northbound intercity train slammed into it from behind at 9.15 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Monday

    --The Associated Press

    Miguel Teixeira / AP

    A worker walks by the wreckage at the scene of a train crash at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal, on Jan. 22.

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    Previously on PhotoBlog:

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    A high-speed train from Lisbon rear-ends a local train in Granja do Ulmeiro, Portugal, derailing several cars and injuring at least 13 people. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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