Tag: train accident

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Ex Kirchner minister sentenced to prison for responsibility in Argentina's deadliest train accident

  

  A court convicted a former Argentine federal planning minister Wednesday of contributing to a deadly 2012 train crash by failing to oversee the operations of commuter railways.

• Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:29 UTC

  Argentina train crash kills 3, injures 315 and sparks controversy over the rail system

  

  At least three people were killed and 315 others injured when two trains collided Thursday morning outside Argentina's capital, officials said. The causes of the accident are yet to be determined and have already triggered controversy giving the poor conditions of the Argentine railway system.

• Saturday, February 23rd 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Massive and emotive ceremony to remember victims of Buenos Aires worst train accident

  

  On the first anniversary of Buenos Aires city worst train accident that left 51 people dead at the downtown Once station, families and friends of the victims held a ceremony to remember those who lost their lives and called for justice as they targeted Government officials from the administration of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Friday, February 22nd 2013 - 04:59 UTC

  March and blackout to remember victims of Buenos Aires worst train station accident

  

  Relatives of the victims of Buenos Aires busiest railway station tragedy confirmed a demonstration at Plaza de Mayo for Friday to mark the first anniversary of the accident, February 22, 2012, and in which 51 people perished and over 700 were injured.

• Thursday, February 14th 2013 - 20:30 UTC

  Witnesses of Argentina’ major train accident fear for their lives

  

  Argentina’s Security Secretary Sergio Berni admitted that the sudden murder of Leonardo Andrada, a key witness in last year’s major rail tragedy investigation, was “suspicious.”

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Argentina revokes commuter railway concession involved in crash that killed 51m and injured 700

  

  Argentina's government on Thursday revoked the commuter railway concession for a company whose train crashed in February, killing 51 people and injuring 703.

• Friday, March 2nd 2012 - 05:52 UTC

  Buenos Aires train crashed against a ‘wall’ because station bumpers were ‘not operational’

  

  The investigation into the causes of the train crash in a main terminal in Buenos Aires which killed 51 people and injured over 700 has surfaced other technical flaws confirming the serious deterioration of the system, according to a report from the Transport Regulation National Commission, CNRT.

• Thursday, March 1st 2012 - 04:45 UTC

  Argentine government delays ‘lapidary’ report on the trains’ system

  

  With its strategic majority in Argentina’s National Auditing Office, AGN, the government of President Cristina Fernandez delegates managed to delay for two days a most critical report on the situation of the country’s train system and particularly the Sarmiento line involved in an accident which killed 51 passengers and injured 703.

• Tuesday, February 28th 2012 - 19:07 UTC

  Argentine government takes over train line involved in tragic accident

  

  The Argentine government announced on Tuesday it was taking over two train lines, one of which was involved in last week’s tragic accident in a downtown Buenos Aires terminal which killed 51 people and left another 704 injured.

• Tuesday, February 28th 2012 - 05:12 UTC

  Forty million Argentines need to know “what happened and who was responsible”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández reappeared in public on Monday and for the first time talked about the Buenos Aires train station accident in which 51 people were killed and 703 others were injured. She assured that she would make “any decisions necessary” once the matter is resolved in court.