‘Several’ people killed when train derails outside a station in Spain

A least two people have died after a train derailed in Galicia, in northern Spain, a spokesman for the local emergency services said today.

The train, made up of four carriages, left the tracks and ploughed into a pylon as it was travelling under a bridge.

Authorities in Galicia said two people were killed, but the national rail company Renfe said 'several' people died in the train, which was carrying about 60 people.

Local reports currently have the death toll at three.  

The train was travelling from the Galician town of Vigo to Porto in Portugal when the accident happened near the town of O Porrino. 

The train's front carriage is on its side up against a grass verge. 

As rescue teams work on the train, cars can be seen passing above as worried locals look down at the wreckage.

In 2013, 79 people were killed in Spain's worst rail disaster in decades when a high-speed train went off the tracks and slammed into a wall near Santiago de Compostela, again in Galicia. 

The train was approaching a curve at more than twice the speed limit on that piece of the track in Galicia.

A pre-trial investigation of the July 24, 2013 crash carried out by a court in Galicia concluded the accident was caused by a lapse in attention by the driver, who was on the telephone at the time of the crash with another rail employee