10 dead in Spain after trains crash; authorities say at least two high-speed trains collided
Crash halts rail service
Spain’s state-owned news agency and other local media reported at least 10 deaths. TVE said the two high-speed trains were heading in the same direction when one hit the tail of the other, sending two cars off the track.
Local officials respond
Urda mayor Manuel Galán told TVE that passengers had been injured. He said civil protection authorities asked the town hall to prepare a sports pavilion to assist passengers. Los Yébenes mayor Jesús Pérez told TVE the accident appeared “serious.” Castilla La Mancha regional president Emiliano García-Page wrote on X that he was traveling to the crash site.
Earlier fatal derailment
In January, 45 people died in southern Spain when a train left the track and struck an oncoming train. It was the country’s deadliest rail crash since a 2013 accident that killed 80 people. The January crash shook confidence in Spain’s extensive high-speed rail network.
Key points
- At least 10 people died in the Toledo province crash, according to local media and Spain’s state-owned news agency.
- ADIF suspended rail service between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia.
- TVE reported that one high-speed train struck the rear of another traveling in the same direction.
- A January crash killed 45 people in southern Spain.