At least 10 people have died after two high-speed trains collided in central Spain, according to the country’s state-owned news agency and local media.
The crash happened on Wednesday morning in the province of Toledo, with rail services suspended between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia, rail operator ADIF said.
Spanish broadcaster TVE reported that both trains were travelling in the same direction when one struck the rear of the other. Two carriages were knocked off the track.
Manuel Galán, mayor of the nearby town of Urda, told TVE that passengers had been injured. Civil protection authorities asked the town hall to prepare a sports pavilion to receive passengers.
Jesús Pérez, mayor of the nearby village of Los Yébenes, said it appeared the accident was “serious”.
Emiliano García-Page, the regional president of Castilla-La Mancha, said on X that he was travelling to the crash site.
The collision comes after 45 people died in southern Spain in January when a train left the track and hit an oncoming service. That was the country’s deadliest rail crash since 2013, when 80 people were killed.
