Madrid: Spain’s state-owned news agency and other local media say at least 10 people have died in a crash between two trains in central Spain.
Spain’s rail system operator ADIF said the crash occurred Wednesday morning in the province of Toledo. Rail service is suspended between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia.
TVE is reporting that the accident was between two high-speed trains heading in the same direction and that one ran into the tail of the other, knocking two of its cars off the track.
The mayor of the nearby town of Urda, Manuel Galan, 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 mayor of another nearby village, Jesus Perez of Los Yebenes, told TVE that it appeared that the accident was “serious.”
The regional president of Castilla La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-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.
