BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Commuter rail provider serving Barcelona and northeastern Spain has suffered primary disruption as a result of the robbery of copper cables from a educate set up, Spanish rail government stated Sunday.
Hundreds of commuters had been stranded at educate stations in and round Barcelona after trains couldn’t run on a number of commuter strains.
The disruption to native shipping got here whilst greater than 5.7 million citizens had been eligible to take part in a regional election in Catalonia.
Spain’s state-owned railway authority ADIF stated that the robbery {of electrical} cabling from a station simply north of Barcelona within the the city of Montcada brought about “a number of fires within the cables of the signaling gadget.”
It stated that the incident round 4 a.m. native time (0200 GMT) brought about a “critical” affect to the native educate provider and affected the entire rail strains.
Catalonia’s commuter rail provider suffers common delays, some as a result of equivalent acts of robbery.
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