Train driver was in process of reversing train out of danger when panicked passengers broke the windows to escape
As many as 20 passengers have suffered burns, three of them seriously, after they jumped from a train when it was engulfed by a forest fire near Castellón in north-eastThe train, en route from Sagunto in the eastern province of Valencia, to Zaragoza, stopped while the driver, seeing that the fire meant it was too dangerous to proceed, was preparing to reverse the train.
According to emergency services, a 58-year-old woman is among those who suffered the worst burns after fleeing the train. “Once they saw that they were surrounded by fire they got back on the train and several of them had suffered burns,” a spokesperson for the Spanish rail company Renfe said.
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