"Everything suggests it was a pure accident where several temporary and unfortunate circumstances caused the woman to set the train in motion when she was cleaning, " Paer Andersson said in a statement, according to AFP news agency.

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The rest of the world is looking on in horror as a slow motion economic train wreck unfurls.

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Without realizing it, he says, humans set into motion a train of events we didn't realize we were in no position to control.

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It's like watching a train speeding headlong towards a brick wall and it isn't even like watching it in slow motion any more.

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