"11 injured as train cars derail in Swiss Alps" Associated Press August 14, 2014
GENEVA — Three train cars derailed, injuring 11 people, after a landslide hit a train in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday, police said. One carriage slid down a steep slope, saved from a ravine only by large trees.
The accident occurred in a deep, wooded valley between Tiefencastel and Solis, southeast of Zurich in the canton (state) of Graubuenden. Police said about 140 people were on board at the time of the accident, about lunchtime. The landslide followed heavy rains over the previous day.
Five people were seriously injured, and six sustained slight injuries, said a Graubuenden police spokeswoman, Anita Senti. They included eight Swiss, two Japanese citizens, and one Australian, police said. The train had set off from the ski resort of St. Moritz, heading north toward Chur, Graubuenden’s administrative capital.
Initially, police said the train ran into a landslide on the track, but revised that to say a landslide hit the train as it traveled between two tunnels along the side of a valley. One train car slid about 33 feet down the slope before being stopped by the trees.
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"Brazil presidential candidate dies in plane crash" Associated Press August 14, 2014
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian presidential candidate, Eduardo Campos, died Wednesday when the small plane carrying him and several campaign officials plunged into a residential neighborhood in the port city of Santos, a City Hall official there said.
All seven people aboard the plane, including a campaign photographer and cameraman, a press adviser, and two pilots, died in the crash, City Hall press officer Patricia Fagueiro said.
In a statement on her blog, President Dilma Rousseff declared three days of mourning and said she would suspend her campaign during that time. ‘‘All of Brazil is in mourning,’’ the statement said. ‘‘We have lost a great Brazilian.’’
Polls show Campos was running in third place, trailing far behind Rousseff and another rival. But his Brazilian Socialist Party ticket was widely regarded as among the best-placed to challenge Rousseff and her popular Workers Party, thanks largely to his running mate, a popular former environment minister, Marina Silva.
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