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Spain Declares Mourning After High-Speed Train Collision
Confirmed
In Short: The Spanish government is investigating the cause of the collision, which officials suggested was due to an “inexplicable” error at the central command center.
At least 68 people were killed and dozens more injured when two high-speed trains collided on Wednesday morning near the town of Urda in Toledo province, about 140 kilometers south of Madrid.
The Spanish prime minister visited the crash site and said, "Today all of Spain is grieving." He added, "I am not attributing responsibility to anyone, I am just stating the facts."
Health Minister Monica Garcia reported that 80 people were injured, 15 of them very seriously. Officials said the trains had been carrying 544 people.
The accident marks Spain's worst train disaster since 80 people were killed in a 2013 derailment.
The Spanish government is investigating the cause of the collision, which officials suggested was due to an “inexplicable” error at the central command center.
What this adds
This collision is the second major train accident on the same line in less than a year, with 46 people killed in January near the town of Adamuz in Andalucía.
Background
A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured many more, prompting three days of national mourning.
The accident marks Spain's worst train disaster since 80 people were killed in a 2013 derailment.
What's confirmed
- The Spanish prime minister has declared three days of mourning after at least 68 people were killed and dozens more injured in a collision between two high-speed trains that officials suggested was caused by an “inexplicable” error at the central command centre.
- “We heard a massive roar, a truly enormous thud that went on for 10 seconds, as if the train were about to derail,” he said.
- As of Oct. 29, 69 deaths were reported, with dozens more injured.
- As of the early afternoon hours (EDT) of 28 October, 68 deaths have been reported, with hundreds injured, and the death toll expected to rise.
- “We are moved and concerned by the train accident in Urda (Toledo). We share in the sorrow of the families and loved ones of the deceased and send our affection to the injured and those affected,” they wrote yesterday (translated from Spanish).
- At least 68 people were killed after a high-speed train slammed into another that had stopped on the tracks in central Spain on Wednesday morning, regional authorities said.
- A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters this century.
What's still developing
- The trains, one from Spain’s state-owned Renfe and the other from the private rail company Iryo, were travelling on Wednesday morning in the same direction on the line that stretches from the Spanish capital, Madrid, to the southern region of Andalusia.
- “The Spanish athletics family joins in the grief over the passing of Julieta Gallego, athlete of AD Sprint, in the train accident that occurred in Urda (Toledo),” the federation (RFEA) said in a statement on Thursday on X, offering its support to her family, friends and club teammates.
- The crash happened at 08:53 (07:53 GMT) between municipalities Mora and Orgaz, and about 140km (100 miles) south of Madrid, according to an account given by the Spanish government.
- According to his account, he arrived around 11 a.m., two hours after the collision, and joined the relief effort improvised by dozens of volunteers, many of them members of his parish.
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- Authorities have reported a death toll of more than 60, surpassing the number of fatalities in the accident that occurred in Adamuz in January, which claimed the lives of 45 people.
- Authorities said 107 people needed medical treatment at area hospitals.
- The trains were travelling in the same direction on the line that stretches from the Spanish capital, Madrid, to Seville on Wednesday when one of the trains ran into the tail of the other, which had stopped, knocking several carriages off the track.
- Associated Press / Photo by Manu Fernandez Church leaders across Spain urged people to turn to God in prayer following a deadly train crash Wednesday.