At least 10 dead and 100 injured after two high-speed trains derail in Spain
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At least 10 people died and 100 people were injured when two high-speed trains derailed in Spain.
The accident occurred in Adamuz, near Cordoba, at 19.39 local time on Sunday. The Civil Guard said an unknown number of passengers were injured.
The trains, one from Malaga to Madrid and the other from Huelva on the adjacent line, both overturned while traveling at high speed.
Emergency services of the Andalusia region said in X, ‘There are injuries in the derailment and collision that occurred in Adamuz, Cordoba.’
The full extent of the incident is currently unknown and authorities have not confirmed the number of people killed; however, the ABC reported that at least 100 people were injured, 25 seriously.
Local media also stated that there were 317 people on the train going to Madrid.
It is currently unknown how many people are trapped, but horrific images show rescuers working desperately in pitch darkness to save those left on the trains.
Salvador Jiménez, a journalist from Radio Nacional de España (RNE), who was on the train at the time, said the derailment felt ‘like an earthquake’.
He said that the train crew immediately called the medical personnel on the ship to help the injured.
Horrific footage shows rescuers working desperately in pitch darkness to save those trapped on derailed trains in Adamuz, near Cordoba.
The full extent of the incident is not yet known and authorities have not confirmed the death toll.
The accident occurred at 19.39 local time in Adamuz, near Cordoba.
Local media reported that a large emergency response team consisting of dozens of ambulances, mobile intensive care units and support vehicles was mobilized to treat the injured.
Firefighters from seven stations in the region were also dispatched.
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said in a statement to X: ‘We are very concerned about the accident involving the derailment of two high-speed trains in Adamuz (Córdoba).
‘The government is working with other authorities and emergency services to assist travellers.’
Following the incident, high-speed train services between Madrid and Andalusia were stopped.
Local people have also reportedly begun providing support to those affected, bringing food and blankets to makeshift field hospitals.
The accident occurred a few months after three British citizens – 36-year-old Kayleigh Smith, 44-year-old William Nelson and 82-year-old David Young – were among the 16 people killed in Lisbon’s Gloria funicular tram disaster when the tram derailed and crashed in the Portuguese capital.
In 2013, 79 people died when a high-speed train derailed at a sharp bend near the city of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, crashed into a concrete wall and caught fire.
143 more people were injured in the worst train accident of recent years in Spain.
More to follow.
