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The death toll rises to 10, with 25 injured, due to the derailment of two trains in southern Spain.
Madrid.- At least ten people have died, about 25 are seriously injured and an unspecified number may still be trapped after the derailment of two high-speed trains in the municipality of Adamuz (Córdoba), according to sources close to the investigation.
The accident occurred when a train from the company Iryo heading to Madrid derailed just an hour after leaving Málaga (south) and invaded the adjacent track, on which another train from the state-owned Renfe Alvia was traveling, making the Madrid-Huelva journey, and which also derailed.
Of these seven deceased, three were traveling on an Alvia train and two on the Iryo, which in total carried 317 people and derailed and invaded the adjacent track, while it is currently unknown in which train the last two confirmed deaths were traveling.
The Spanish Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, explained that the last carriages of the Iryo train that derailed in Adamuz invaded the opposite track on which a Renfe high-speed train was circulating at that moment and, after a “terrible” impact, two carriages of the latter train were thrown off, causing a number of victims that “cannot be confirmed” yet.
Puente is following all the information about the train accident at the H24 Network Management Center of the state-owned railway company Adif, in Madrid, and from there he explained on his X account that the latest information coming from Córdoba is “very serious”.
The impact “has been terrible”, and caused “the first two train units of Renfe to be thrown out as a result of it”. “The number of victims cannot be confirmed at this time. The main thing now is to help the victims”, the minister underlined.
The Radio Nacional de España (RNE) journalist Salvador Jiménez, who was traveling in the first carriage of the Iryo train at the time of the accident, which an hour after leaving Málaga felt like “an earthquake” in all the carriages and that “immediately” over the public address system the crew asked if there was medical personnel to help the injured in the last two carriages, one of them overturned on its side on the tracks and with broken windows.
The travelers were leaving towards the Adamuz station, while the crew took hammers to break the windows and help people get out of the derailed wagons.
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