One person died and six others were injured Monday in a crash between two subway trains in Venezuela's capital, according to dpa. The accident took place in a tunnel near the Plaza Sucre station in western Caracas, Civil Protection chief Antonio Rivero said. The victim of the crash is a 38-year-old woman, Fire Department spokesman Delio Martinez said. A train operator initially trapped inside the control cabin was rescued minutes later. "The cause of the accident is being sought. A moving train ran into another which was not moving," Martinez said. This is the first accident of this sort in the Caracas underground, which started operating in 1983 and currently carries more than one million people per day across a four-line network.
