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More than 20 radical were killed and respective different injured aft 2 high-speed trains collided and derailed successful confederate Spain, the exigency services said connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
Antonio Sanz, determination Health Minister for the Andalusia state wherever the clang happened, said officials fearfulness that the decease toll whitethorn emergence beyond that number.
Rescue operations are ongoing, helium said, adding that 73 injured passengers person been taken to six antithetic hospitals.
A bid travelling from Malaga to Madrid derailed adjacent Adamuz, crossing onto the different way wherever it deed an oncoming train, which besides derailed, Spain’s ADIF obstruction assemblage posted connected X.
“We person received calls from radical reporting that determination were injured and trapped,” a spokesperson for the Andalusian exigency services told AFP.
A idiosyncratic exits a derailed bid arsenic archetypal responders hunt done wreckage aft 2 high-speed trains derailed successful Adamuz, adjacent Cordoba, Spain connected Sunday. | Photo Credit: Reuters
One witnesser told nationalist broadcaster TVE that 1 of the carriages of the archetypal bid had wholly overturned.
The determination Civil Protection chief, María Belén Moya Rojas, told Canal Sur that the mishap happened successful an country that is hard to reach.
Local radical were taking blankets and h2o to the country to assistance the victims, she said.
ADIF said bid services betwixt Madrid and cities successful Andalucia would not tally connected Monday (January 19).
“High-speed bid services betwixt Madrid and Cordoba, Seville, Malaga, and Huelva volition beryllium suspended during each of Monday,” ADIF said connected X.
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia said connected Sunday (January 18) they were pursuing “with large concern” quality of the bid disaster.
“We are pursuing with large interest the superior mishap betwixt 2 high-speed trains successful Adamuz,” the royal palace said connected X.
“We widen our astir heartfelt condolences to the relatives and loved ones of the dead, arsenic good arsenic our emotion and wishes for a swift betterment to the injured,” it added.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said successful a station connected X that she was pursuing “the unspeakable news” from Cordoba.
“Tonight you are successful my thoughts,” she wrote successful Spanish.
