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Firemen spray water into a burning railcar at a train station in Buenos Aires, Argentina Leonardo Zavattaro/AP/Press Association Images

Train delays in Argentina drive angry mobs to burn out carriages

A derailed carriage caused severe delays along a route in Buenos Aires. Passengers took matters into their own hands by setting three trains on fire.

ANGRY PASSENGERS BURNED out trains in at least three stations in Buenos Aires after a derailment caused long delays for the city’s commuters.

The Buenos Aires Herald reports that users of a particular train line became enraged after lengthy delays at stations, threw rocks at carriages and in one instance forced the train driver to vacate his position so that they could burn out the vehicles.

Three stations in the city were affected, and the BBC reports that the unrest spread quickly between the stops, and that ticket and vending machines were vandalised.

Firefighters also said that some passengers had tried to disrupt their work, and that stones were thrown at them. Several people have been arrested. This is not the first time passengers have hit out at delays to the train network in Buenos Aires.

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    Apr 8th 2012, 10:09 PM

    I would really like to know the history of this of flu … when did it start ? with whom? why were thr HSE not notified sooner?

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    Apr 8th 2012, 10:43 PM

    Last time I checked, flu wasn’t a notifiable disease…

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    Apr 9th 2012, 12:27 AM

    Maybe so Stadler W, but when five people die in six days IN THE SAME LOCATION it doesnt take a rocket scientist to know there is something not quite right !

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    Apr 9th 2012, 5:47 AM

    Hmmm, a respiratory illness that’s transmitted by air in a small building and a bunch of vulnerable people get it, and it happens to be a severe case. Yeah, get Jim Corr onto the case right away.

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    Apr 9th 2012, 11:51 AM

    Stadler Waldorf
    Are you mad ?
    What has Jim Corr got to do with it ?
    I never intimated that it is a conspiracy .
    I only asked why were the HSE not notified sooner ?

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