Spain rail disaster: At least 39 dead in crash between two high-speed trains in Toledo province
It’s believed the two high-speed trains were heading in the same direction when one ran into the tail of the other while it was stationary.
At least 39 people are believed dead following a crash between two high-speed trains in central Spain.
Spanish authorities had earlier put a confirmed death toll at 10, but Esther Padilla, a spokeswoman for the Castilla La Mancha region, said “that number will surely rise.”
The Sun released the higher figure shortly after the incident was confirmed shortly after 9am, local time, Wednesday in the province of Toledo.
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Padilla told state broadcaster TVE that the accident was between two high-speed trains heading in the same direction and that one ran into the tail of the other while it was stopped, knocking two of its cars off the track.
The mayor of the nearby town of Urda, Manuel Galán, told Spanish state broadcaster TVE that passengers had been injured and that civil protection authorities had asked his town hall to prepare a sports pavilion to attend to passengers.
The regional president of Castilla La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, wrote on X that he is on his way to the crash site.
In January, 45 people died in southern Spain when a train jumped the track and hit an oncoming train. The crash was the deadliest in Spain since a 2013 crash that killed 80 people. The January incident shook the confidence the European country has in its extensive high-speed rail network.
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