At least six cars of a train Railroad Company Buenos Aires (TBA) were torched by angry passengers due to outage on Monday. The metro line affected joins the attack Argentina's capital with the western outskirts of the city, densely populated and suffer delays every day.
The string of fires began on the morning of Monday, Haedo station, 16 km west of Buenos Aires, and spread to the nearby Ramos Mejía and Citadel. Every day transportation use this service about 40,000 people.
Gustavo Gago, a spokesman for the metro company TBA, stated that "the service was disrupted by the derailment of a train (without consequences) near the terminus of Eleven" in Buenos Aires.
Witnesses said the youth groups used the situation to loot a booth selling tickets Haedo station, while subway workers reported being assaulted by angry passengers
in 2008 had been similar incidents in the Haedo station. The state railway company was privatized in the 90's, during the government of Carlos Menem (1989-99), who closed hundreds of miles of railroads leaving many isolated locations throughout the country.
The quality of rail services has declined since then and only this year there were two serious accidents, one with four deaths and hundreds of injured and another 70 wounded balance.
Source: La Voz de Galicia ( www.lavozdegalicia.es )
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