Driver Investigated After 78 Killed In Spain Train Crash -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Police put the driver of a Spanish train under investigation on Thursday after at least 78 people died when it hit a sharp bend at speed and derailed near the northern city of Santiago de Compostela, in one of Europe's worse rail disasters.
Dramatic video footage from a security camera published on the website of El Pais newspaper showed the train careering into a wall at the side of the track as it came off the rails on the bend on Wednesday night.
Police had put the train driver under formal investigation, a spokeswoman for Galicia's Supreme Court told Reuters, without naming him.
The Galicia government said the train had two drivers and one was in hospital but it was not immediately clear which driver was under investigation.
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