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Scores of passengers killed and hundreds injured after packed train crashes into barrier at Argentine station.

Scores of passengers were killed and hundreds of others injured after the commuter train rammed into a barrier at a Buenos Aires station.
Published On 23 Feb 2012

Scores of passengers killed and hundreds injured after packed train crashes into barrier at Argentine station.

Rescue workers struggle to save many people trapped in the train.
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An injured passenger is is lifted from a coach wreckage by firefighters in Buenos Aires.
Passengers said windows exploded as the tops of train cars separated from their floors. The trains are usually packed with people standing between the seats, and many were thrown into each other and to the floor by the force of the hard stop.
Commuters lie on stretchers after sustaining injuries when their train crashed into the Once station during rush hour.
Commuters react to accident inside the Once train station..
Injured passengers wait to be carried away to hospitals after the collision.
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An injured passenger is carried to a waiting helicopter to be transported to a hospital in the city.
Three or four hospitals in Buenos Aires were reportedly packed with victims of the crash.