Two high-speed trains have collided in Spain. According to the authorities, at least ten people have died. The accident occurred on the railway line linking Madrid with the southern region of Andalusia.
“The information coming in is grim. At least 10 people have died, and that number is likely to rise,” Esther Padilla, a spokesperson for the Castile-La Mancha regional government, told local television channel CMM.
The railway operator Adif announced on social media platform X that services on the Madrid–Andalusia high-speed line had been suspended.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he was “shocked by the serious train accident” in Toledo, the administrative centre of Castile-La Mancha.
In a post on X, Sánchez added that the emergency services are working at the scene of the accident.
The cause of the collision is as yet unknown.
This comes nine months after another major accident on the same line: in January, a collision between two high-speed trains near the town of Ádamos in Andalusia, in southern Spain, claimed the lives of 46 people.