Accident

Train collides with crane in Spain's fourth rail crash in a week, four injured

Several people suffered minor injuries in the crash near the port city of Cartagena in the Murcia region, authorities reported on Thursday.

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Train line R1 out of service, while all railway infrastructure is checked after three derailments in 48 hours caused accidents that left dozens dead in El Masnou, Spain, January 22, 2026.
Members of the Spanish Civil Guard, along with other emergency personnel, work next to one of the trains involved in the accident, at the site of a deadly derailment of two high-speed trains near Adamuz, in Cordoba, Spain, January 19, 2026.

Unmarked piece found near Spain train crash suspected to be missing undercarriage

The crash, one of Europe's biggest, happened on Sunday night near the southern town of Adamuz in a remote hilly area, killing at least 42 people.

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Members of the Spanish Civil Guard, along with other emergency personnel, work next to one of the trains involved in the accident, at the site of a deadly derailment of two high-speed trains near Adamuz, in Cordoba, Spain, January 19, 2026.

Second train derailment in two days in Spain leaves one dead, 20 injured near Barcelona

The accident occurred just two days after a high-speed train collision and derailment near Adamuz in the southern Córdoba province that killed 42 people.

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Members of the Spanish Civil Guard, along with other emergency personnel, work next to one of the trains involved in the accident, at the site of a deadly derailment of two high-speed trains near Adamuz, in Cordoba, Spain, January 19, 2026.

Spain declares three days of mourning for victims after deadly high-speed train crash

Rescuers continue to look under the wreckage of twisted train cars to locate victims of the collision.

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Israeli woman killed in ATV accident in Greece

The Israeli consulate in Athens is working to bring her body back to her family.

MAY 9, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Greek island of Santorini

Gold mine fire in Peru kills 27 people

Local government said a short-circuit sparked the fire in the early morning hours of Saturday in the southern region of Arequipa.

MAY 7, 2023ByREUTERS
Anti-government protestors block a road demanding the resignation of Peru's President Dina Boluarte, in Condoroma in Cusco region, Peru February 4, 2023

Sabotage causes freight train to derail in Russia region close to Ukraine

Operator Russian Railways earlier said around 20 wagons had come off the track due to "unauthorised interference". Snezhetskaya is just to the southeast of Bryansk.

MAY 2, 2023ByREUTERS
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Peruvian gas workers accidentally stumble upon 600-year-old tomb

The workers stumbled on 1,700 archaeological remains including mummies, textiles and ceramics.

APRIL 30, 2023ByREUTERS
Skeletal remains of a 3-year-old infant and offerings that formed a funeral bundle with an approximate age of 1000 years found by the Calidda company during excavations to install natural gas are pictured in Lima, Peru, April 26, 2023.

One Israeli killed, 33 injured in South Korea bus accident

The bus driver attributed the accident to a mechanical issue in the bus, according to Army Radio. 

APRIL 13, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Emergency service workers place a body, recovered from the capsized passenger ship Sewol, into an ambulance at the port in Jindo April 22, 2014.

Eleven killed in stampede for food aid in southern Pakistan

The dead included five women and three children, police said, while five other people were hospitalized following the incident.

MARCH 31, 2023ByREUTERS
Pakistan's national flag flatters during a ceremony to celebrate Pakistan's 75th Independence Day, at the Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi, Pakistan, August 14, 2022.

IDF presents findings after soldier dies in accident

Dennis Zinobayev was killed and three of his comrades were injured when a grenade exploded in their room in January.

MARCH 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Corporal Dennis Zinobayev who was killed when a grenade in his bag exploded.

Research vessel tips over in Scotland, 35 people injured

23 people were treated at a hospital and 12 were treated at the scene at Imperial Dock, Leith.

MARCH 23, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
View of the research vessel Petrel after it tipped on its side in a dry dock in Leith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, Britain, March 22, 2023.

Two killed, six in Ramat Gan scaffolding collapse

The exact reasons for the collapse of the scaffolding at a construction site in Ramat Gan are still unclear.

MARCH 16, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
First responders at the scene of the collapsed scaffolding in Ramat Gan, March 16 2023.

This week in Jerusalem: Tshuva has an answer

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByPEGGY CIDOR
THE PIT’HAT Kidron Park in Wadi Joz.