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This Tuesday, November 19, commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Barrio Peral train accident that left six dead.
The Palm of Remembrance was the place chosen by the Association of Neighbors of this neighborhood of Cartagena to commemorate the event.
There, where the level crossing was in which six people died, a requiem rang and a photo exhibition was inaugurated.
A failure in the doorbell of the level crossing barrier caused the incident four decades ago.
A taxi and a Seat 127 were victims of the fatal outrage that claimed the lives of six people, one of them pregnant and the other minor.
The mayor of Cartagena Ana Belén Castejón, the second deputy mayor Manuel Padín, the councilor delegated for Transparency, General Services and Electronic Administration Alejandra Gutiérrez and the councilors of the Municipal Corporation Pilar Marcos, Jesús Giménez, José López, María Dolores Ruiz and Gonzalo Abad represented the City Council of Cartagena in the solemn act.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, wanted to express her condolences to the families of the victims and said that "forty years later we still have things to do" in terms of railway infrastructure.
The neighborhood concentration was very emotional, as the neighbors remembered the incident in dismay.
The accident killed six people, including a pregnant woman and a minor.
From that incident, the neighbors mobilized to claim a railroad detour.
These claims paid off with the suppression of rail traffic in the area in 1998.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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