Photos: Spain passenger train derails, killing at least 78

An overhead view of the wreckage of a train crash is seen near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, in this still image from video, July 25, 2013. A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters. REUTERS/Aeromedia.es ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

A flash is seen as a train derails in this still image from the video of a security camera near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters. Video taken July 24, 2013. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

A grab from a security video camera shows an Alvia model train derailing four kilometres from Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24, 2013 in northwest Spain killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO/ HO AFP/Getty Images ( 521616866 )

A grab from a security video camera shows an Alvia model train derailing four kilometres from Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. A train hurtled off the tracks on July 24, 2013 in northwest Spain killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140, an official said today, the country's deadliest rail disaster in more than 40 years. AFP PHOTO/ HO AFP/Getty Images ( 521616836 )

A train derails in this still image from the video of a security camera near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. The train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 77 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters. Video taken July 24, 2013. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

Relatives of one of the victims of a train crash comfort each other in Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 25, 2013. A train derailed outside the ancient northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday evening, killing at least 78 people and injuring up to 131 in one of Europe's worst rail disasters. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

A wounded man involved in a train accident arrives at a victims information point in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. The death toll in a passenger train crash in northwestern Spain rose to 77 Friday after the train jumped the tracks on a curvy stretch of track just before arriving in the northwestern shrine city of Santiago de Compostela, a judicial official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Salome Montes) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Civil Defence staff members hold a blanket covering relatives of passengers involved in the train crash at the Cersia building on July 25, 2013 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The crash occurred as the train approached the north-western Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela at 8.40pm on July 24th, at least 77 people have died and a further 131 reported injured. The crash occured on the eve of the Santiago de Compostela Festivities. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) ( 174399648 )

Relatives of the victims involved in Wednesday's train accident react at a victims information point in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Relatives of victims from a train crash in northwestern Spain sobbed and hugged each other Thursday near a makeshift morgue in a sports arena for the victims as the death toll rose to 78 and investigators tried to determine the cause. The train jumped the tracks and at least one passenger told a radio station that it appeared to be going very fast as it went into a pronounced curve while approaching the station in this Catholic shrine city on the eve of a major religious festival. (AP Photo/ Salome Montes) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

A man is evacuated by emergency personnel at the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Rescue workers pull victims from a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. At least 35 people were killed and 50 injured when a train derailed on the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday in one of the country's worst rail disasters. Bodies covered in blankets lay next to carriages as smoke billowed from the wreckage a few hundred meters away from the entrance to the city's main station. REUTERS/Oscar Corral ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Rescue workers pull victims from a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Corral ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

An injured passenger is helped by a policeman after a train crashed near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. A woman who was close to the site of the accident told the radio station that she had first heard a loud explosion and then saw the train derailed. REUTERS/Oscar Corral ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Rescue workers pull victims from a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 24, 2013. REUTERS/Oscar Corral ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( APTOPIX Spain Train Derailment )

Rescuers work on the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521600085 )

Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ El correo Gallego/Antonio Hernandez) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Rescuers work at the site of a train accident as the bodies of the victims, covered with blankets, lie on the ground, near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521601048 )

Rescuers work at the site of a train accident as the bodies of the victims, covered with blankets, lie on the ground, near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 24, 2013. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521600830 )

A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows Spanish police officers evacuating an injured woman from a derailed car following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSMONICA FERREIROS,XOAN A. SOLER/AFP/Getty Images ( 521623174 )

A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows two men comforting an injured woman next to a derailed car following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSXOAN A. SOLER,MONICA FERREIROS/AFP/Getty Images ( 521623172 )

A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows an injured man sitting next to the body of a victim covered with a blanket following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSMONICA FERREIROS,XOAN A. SOLER/AFP/Getty Images ( 521623170 )

A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows a fireman carrying an injured young girl following a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSXOAN A. SOLER,MONICA FERREIROS/AFP/Getty Images ( 521623166 )

Rescuers checks a train's car at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521615932 )

In this photograph taken on July 24, 2013 a female survivor (C) grieves while assisted by Indonesian rescuers upon her arrival at the wharf of Cidaun, West Java on July 24, 2013 after an Australia-bound boat carrying asylum-seekers sank off the Indonesian coast, leaving at 11 confirmed dead. Rescuers continued searching the seas off Indonesian for survivors. Police have said around 200 were aboard, but an asylum-seeker has said 250 people, mostly Sri Lankans, made the perilous journey. AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/Getty Images ( 521613957 )

A firefighter uses and axe to open their way inside a train car at the site of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. A (AP Photo/Lalo Villar) ( Spain Train Derailment )

A rail personnel works next to the cabin of a derailed train following an accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Lalo Villar) ( Spain Train Derailment )

A picture taken on July 24, 2013 shows the bodies of victims covered with blankets as rescuers work at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela. AFP PHOTO / LA VOZ DE GALICIA / XOAN A. SOLER / MONICA FERREIROSMONICA FERREIROS, XOAN A. SOLER/AFP/Getty Images ( 521620652 )

Relatives of victims involved in a train accident wait for news at a victims information point in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Brais Lorenzo) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Relatives of the victims of a train accident react outside the Cersia building, where they are attended by psychologists from the Red Cross in Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images ( 521617275 )

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (L) and Galicia's regional President Alberto Nunez Feijoo (R) visit the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO / POOL / LAVANDEIRA JR/AFP/Getty Images ( 521617176 )

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (R) and Galicia's regional President Alberto Nunez Feijoo (2nd R) visit the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO / POOL / LAVANDEIRA JR/AFP/Getty Images ( 521617217 )

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (R) and Galicia's regional President Alberto Nunez Feijoo (2nd L) visit the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO / POOL / LAVANDEIRA JR/AFP/Getty Images ( 521617138 )

A crane removes a derailed train's car at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ STR-/AFP/Getty Images ( 521614646 )

A rescuers walks past a derailed train's car at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521612088 )

Rescuers checks a train's car at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521611958 )

A rescuers checks a train's car at the site of a train accident near the city of Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP/Getty Images ( 521612028 )

A firefighter works inside a derailed carriage at the site of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Lalo Villar) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Relatives of the victims involved in Wednesday's train accident react at a victims information point in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/ Salome Montes) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Onlookers view the wreckage of a train crash near Santiago de Compostela, northwestern Spain, July 25, 2013. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal ( SPAIN-TRAIN/ )

A derailed train car is lifted by a crane at the site of a train accident in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Lalo Villar) ( Spain Train Derailment )

Relatives of victims involved in a train accident react at a victims information point in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday July 25, 2013. Relatives of victims from a train crash in northwestern Spain sobbed and hugged each other Thursday near a makeshift morgue in a sports arena for the victims as the death toll rose to 78 and investigators tried to determine the cause. The train jumped the tracks and at least one passenger told a radio station that it appeared to be going very fast as it went into a pronounced curve while approaching the station in this Catholic shrine city on the eve of a major religious festival. (AP Photo/Brais Lorenzo) ( Spain Train Derailment )