 An injured woman is carried on-board an
ambulance after a subway derailment in Spanish city of Valencia,
July 3, 2006. The death toll rose to 41 while another 47 more people
injured, officials said on Monday. (Xinhua
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 An injured woman is carried into an ambulance after a
subway derailment in Spanish city of Valencia, July 3, 2006. (Xinhua
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 An injured man is sent to the hospital after a subway
derailment in Spanish city of Valencia, July 3, 2006. (Xinhua/AFP
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MADRID, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The black box recorder
from the subway train that derailed in the Spanish city of Valencia on Monday is
being analyzed to see if speeding caused the accident which left 41 people dead,
officials said.
"The black box has been found and is in the hands of
our agents, who are in the process of analyzing it," said Jose Ramon Garcia
Anton, head of infrastructure for the Valencia regional government.
The crash happened on Monday on the No. 1 line of
Valencia's subway system between Jesus station and Plaza de Espana station.
Forty of the 41 people killed in the crash have been
identified. The driver was among the dead. A further 47 people were injured in
the incident, two seriously.
Officials in Valencia had said earlier that the
likely cause of the derailment could be a combination of speeding and a wheel
coming off on a bend.
Meanwhile, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Rodriquez
Zapatero cut short a visit to India to travel to Valencia, and three days of
mourning has been declared.
Valencia, around 350 km from the capital Madrid, is
one of Spain's biggest cities with a population of 800,000. Enditem
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