Nuevo atentado contra la línea férrea de Cerrejón produjo el descarrilamiento de varios vagones en La Guajira: es el sexto ataque este año was recorded by Global Incident Tracker on Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 13:18 UTC. The event is classified as a rail accident incident with a severity rating of Minor, and was detected through PRESS.
Reported by El Tiempo, a national news outlet in Colombia. Read directly from the publisher's own feed rather than through a news aggregator.
Where this happened
The incident is located in Colombia (South America), whose capital is Bogotá. Historically, Colombia is most affected by floods, landslides, earthquakes and volcanic activity. You can follow every incident recorded in this country, updated live, on the Colombia incident tracker.
Approximate coordinates of the reported event are 4.600°, -74.300°. The marker on the map above shows this position; for news-derived reports the location reflects the place named in media coverage and may represent a district or city rather than an exact site.
Understanding rail accident events
Train derailments, collisions and level-crossing accidents. Rail incidents are rare relative to distance travelled but high-consequence when they occur. Signal passing, track defects, level-crossing conflicts and rolling-stock failures dominate the causes.
How severity is rated
Global Incident Tracker rates every event on a four-step scale — Minor, Moderate, Severe and Extreme — derived from the source signal: earthquake magnitude, official GDACS alert colour, or the volume of independent media reporting for news-derived incidents. This event is currently rated Minor. Ratings can change as more information becomes available, and a rating is a monitoring signal rather than an official government assessment.
Safety guidance for rail accident situations
- Assume adjacent tracks remain live and in use; move away from the rail corridor.
- Follow crew instructions and use marked emergency exits rather than forcing doors.
- Stay clear of overhead lines and any derailed tank cars.
- Report yourself as safe to family via text to keep phone networks clear.
- Follow only official instructions from local authorities and emergency services — this page is a monitoring record, not an emergency alert.
Data and verification
This record was generated automatically from PRESS and de-duplicated against our archive. Early reports for any incident can be revised: locations get refined, magnitudes are recalculated and impact figures change as assessments arrive. We deliberately do not publish casualty numbers unless an official source states them. The original source report is linked at the top of this page.
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Timeline and sources
Reported
Reported by National press, News reports (Google News). Not independently confirmed. Copies of one syndicated story are counted once.
How statuses are decided · the number of reports is never treated as confirmation.
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· received · event time 23 Sep 2026, 13:18 UTCFirst report News report
First recorded from National press.
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· received · event time 23 Sep 2026, 13:18 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Nuevo atentado contra la línea férrea de Cerrejón produjo el descarrilamiento de varios vagones en La Guajira: es el sexto ataque este año"
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· received · event time 23 Sep 2026, 18:00 UTCAlso reported News report
Also reported by News reports (Google News): "Nuevo atentado contra la línea férrea de Cerrejón produjo el descarrilamiento de varios vagones en La Guajira"
Times are when this site received each report, in UTC; the event time is shown where the source gave one. 3 reports are attached to this incident. Copies of one syndicated story count as one report.
Conditions at the time
7.7 mm of rain fell that day, and the temperature peaked at 18°C.
Weather reanalysis for this location and date via Open-Meteo.