A deadly collision on Spain’s high-speed rail network has left at least 10 people dead after two trains crashed south of Madrid, according to the regional government.
“Two trains have collided – there are people injured,” Manuel Galan, mayor of the town of Urda, told public broadcaster TVE.
A spokesperson for the Spanish emergency services said the impact happened just before 9am local time (8am Irish time).
“All resources are currently being deployed,” the spokesperson said, including “several fire crews, three helicopters, and two mobile intensive care units”.
Rail infrastructure company ADIF also confirmed that a collision had occurred, issuing a warning in a social media post that the high-speed rail line from
“Traffic on the Madrid-Andalusia high-speed rail line has been suspended following a rear-end collision between two trains,” Adif said in a message posted on X.
Spanish newspaper El Pais cited witnesses who described multiple injuries and said emergency medical teams quickly arrived at the scene.
Two of the rail carriages involved reportedly derailed and tumbled down an embankment, the report added.
La incidencia ha ocurrido entre Mora y Orgaz y Urda, en el PK 118, entre un tren de Renfe y otro de la compañía Iryo, que cubrían el trayecto Madrid-Sevilla.
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El Pais reported that the crash took place shortly after 9am local time (8am Irish time) between the towns of Los Yebenes and Urda, in the province of Toledo.
It said the collision involved a high-speed AVE service that had departed Madrid for Seville and an Iryo train travelling in the opposite direction.
In January, 45 people were killed when two high-speed trains collided in Andalusia.
