Key takeaways:
- Spain’s state-owned news agency and other local media reported at least 10 deaths, according to CBS News.
- Rail operator ADIF said the trains crashed Wednesday morning in Toledo province; service between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia was suspended.
- TVE reported that one high-speed train struck the rear of another traveling in the same direction, knocking two cars off the track.
At least 10 people have died after two trains crashed Wednesday morning in central Spain, the country’s state-owned news agency and other local media reported, according to CBS News. A local mayor said passengers were injured, and rail service was suspended on routes linking Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia.
Spain’s rail infrastructure operator, ADIF, said the crash occurred in the province of Toledo. Spanish state broadcaster TVE reported that the trains were high-speed services traveling in the same direction. One struck the rear of the other, knocking two cars off the track, according to TVE’s account cited by CBS News.
Manuel Galán, mayor of the nearby town of Urda, told TVE that civil protection authorities had asked his town hall to prepare a sports pavilion to receive passengers. He said passengers had been injured, but did not give a number.
The mayor of another nearby village, Los Yébenes, told TVE that the accident appeared “serious,” CBS News reported. Emiliano García-Page, president of the Castilla-La Mancha region, wrote on X that he was on his way to the crash site.
An earlier Al Jazeera report said injuries had been reported but did not include a death toll. CBS News subsequently cited the Spanish news agency and local media for the report of at least 10 deaths.
The crash follows a January rail disaster in southern Spain that killed 45 people. In that incident, a train derailed and hit an oncoming train. CBS News described it as Spain’s deadliest rail crash since a 2013 accident that killed 80 people.
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