Chile expresses “its regret” for fatalities and injuries in Spanish train accident

Santiago de Chile,.- The Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed this Monday “its regret” for the fatalities and the injured in the serious railway accident that occurred in Córdoba, Spain.

“We send our condolences to the families of the deceased, and express our solidarity with the Government of the Kingdom of Spain”, stated the Chilean Foreign Ministry in a brief post on X.

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The accident, which took place on Sunday in Adamuz and left at least 40 dead and 41 injured admitted to hospitals, occurred when a high-speed Iryo train traveling between Malaga and Madrid with 300 people on board derailed and impacted another high-speed Alvia train also traveling between Madrid and Huelva, with almost 200 other passengers. The causes of the accident are still unknown, but the investigating commission, which has been working at the scene since Sunday night, indicates that the Iryo train derailed, causing the last two carriages to invade the adjacent track, along which the Alvia traveled a few seconds later. The collision between the carriages of both trains caused several of the convoys to fall down a four-meter embankment. The section of track where the accident occurred is part of the Madrid-Seville corridor, the oldest in the high-speed network of the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (Adif), inaugurated in 1992, and recently renovated. The Chilean government’s note arrives 24 hours after the disaster and while Chile is also going through its own mourning for the death of 19 people in the wildfires affecting the southern regions of Ñuble and BioBío, with several areas of the south of the country in a state of disaster.