{"id":498001,"date":"2026-01-18T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-death-toll-rises-to-21-in-the-collision-of-two-trains-in-southern-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:01:29","slug":"the-death-toll-rises-to-21-in-the-collision-of-two-trains-in-southern-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/the-death-toll-rises-to-21-in-the-collision-of-two-trains-in-southern-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The death toll rises to 21 in the collision of two trains in southern Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"The death toll in the collision in southern Spain on Sunday between two trains carrying hundreds of passengers in the Spanish province of <strong>C\u00f3rdoba<\/strong> (south) rose to 21, the <strong>Civil Guard<\/strong> told AFP.\n\nThe <strong>Civil Guard<\/strong> did not give a figure for <strong>injured<\/strong> in the spectacular accident, but the <strong>emergency<\/strong> services of the region of <strong>Andalusia<\/strong>, where the events occurred, had estimated at least 25 <strong>serious injuries<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Varios muertos y heridos tras descarrilar dos trenes de alta velocidad en Espa\u00f1a\">http:\/\/Varios muertos y heridos tras descarrilar dos trenes de alta velocidad en Espa\u00f1a<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe Spanish Minister of Transport, \u00d3scar Puente, explained that the last carriages of the <strong>Iryo train<\/strong> that derailed in Adamuz invaded the opposite track on which a Renfe high-speed train was circulating at that moment and, after a &#8220;terrible&#8221; impact.\n\nTwo carriages of this last train <strong>flew off<\/strong>, causing a number of victims that &#8220;cannot be confirmed&#8221; yet.\n\nPuente 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 C\u00f3rdoba is &#8220;very serious&#8221;.\n\nThe impact &#8220;has been terrible&#8221;, and caused &#8220;the first two units of the Renfe train to be thrown off as a result of it&#8221;. &#8220;The number of victims cannot be confirmed at this time. The main thing now is to help the victims&#8221;, the minister stressed.\n\nThe journalist from Radio Nacional de Espa\u00f1a (RNE) <strong>Salvador Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong>, who was traveling in the first carriage of the Iryo train at the time of the accident, which an hour after leaving M\u00e1laga felt like &#8220;an <strong>earthquake<\/strong>&#8221; in all the carriages and that &#8220;immediately&#8221; over the public address system the <strong>crew<\/strong> asked if there was <strong>medical personnel<\/strong> to help the <strong>injured<\/strong> in the last two carriages, one of them overturned on its side on the tracks and with broken windows.\n\nThe travelers were leaving towards the Adamuz station, while the <strong>crew<\/strong> was grabbing hammers to break the windows and help people get out of the derailed wagons.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in the collision in southern Spain on Sunday between two trains carrying hundreds of passengers in the Spanish province of C\u00f3rdoba (south) rose to 21, the Civil Guard told AFP. The Civil Guard did not give a figure for injured in the spectacular accident, but the emergency services of the region of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40563,43108],"class_list":["post-498001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-spain","tag-trains"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25yh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}