A free shuttle carrying about 30 people tipped over on Saturday night in the Andalusian town near Málaga, injuring 17, none seriously, with four taken to hospital, according to local authorities.
A free tourist train carrying roughly 30 passengers overturned in the Andalusian town of Cártama on Saturday night, sending 17 people, including three children, for medical attention, four of them to a hospital, none with serious injuries, according to the town's Ayuntamiento de Cártama, as reported by BBC News.
The incident occurred just after 21:30 local time on 13 June, as the train was making a turn on Calle Santo Cristo, according to local authorities cited by the BBC. Emergency services received several calls and attended the scene, where four people, three of them children, were evacuated to a nearby hospital. The Ayuntamiento de Cártama confirmed in a statement that none of the victims suffered serious injuries.
The train was one of the free shuttles operating as part of Cártama's annual Ruta de la Tapa y el Cóctel, a multi-day culinary tourism event running 10–14 June in which attendees travel between local businesses to sample tapas and cocktails. The free ride, which has become a central logistical pillar of the festival, has been suspended for the remainder of the weekend while investigations proceed.
The cause of the overturning remains unknown, according to local authorities, who have not yet named an operator or commented on track or vehicle condition. Social media images from the scene show emergency services attending to a child sitting on the floor inside the wagon, with other passengers still aboard. The reporting remains a single local-incident wire based on local government statements and eyewitness imagery; independent technical or eyewitness corroboration had not been published at the time of writing.
Cártama, a town of roughly 6,000 people about 17 km inland from Málaga, has not yet announced whether the festival's free train service will resume after the weekend. Local authorities are continuing to investigate the overturning, and the festival's remaining programming is expected to continue without the shuttle.
Source: BBC News, "Tourist train overturns and injures 17 during Cártama tapas festival" (citing Ayuntamiento de Cártama and eyewitness social media imagery).