Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people are confirmed dead in a high-speed train collision the previous night in the south of the country.
The crash happened about 10 minutes after the Málaga-to-Madrid service left at 6.40 P.M. local time
The Andalucian government explained that 11 adults and one child are in intensive care, in critical condition.
A further 24 people were seriously injured, emergency officials, with others suffering minor injuries, and around 100 were hurt.
The private rail company said about 300 passengers were on board.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a post on the social media app X that she was following “the terrible news.” “Tonight, you are in my thoughts,” she wrote in Spanish.
Meanwhile the Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the government was working with emergency services to help those affected.
The accident is the worst on Spain’s railways since the Galicia crash in 2013 when 79 people were killed and 144 injured after a train slammed into a well and burst into flames near Santiago de Compostela.
Representation image of a train. (Photo by Vlad Nazarov from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-sitting-in-subway-train-11135755/)
