{"id":264539,"date":"2026-01-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=264539"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:24:26","slug":"high-speed-train-crash-in-spain-kills-at-least-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/high-speed-train-crash-in-spain-kills-at-least-39\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed train crash in Spain kills at least 39"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC<\/strong>– At least 39 people have died in a train collision in southern Spain and dozens more have been injured in the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade, Spain’s Civil Guard has said.<\/p>

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Carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, colliding with an oncoming train in Adamuz on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four hundred passengers and staff were onboard both trains, the rail networks said. Emergency services treated 122 people, with 43, including four children, still in hospital. Of those, 12 adults and one child are in intensive care.<\/p>

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Spanish Transport Minister \u00d3scar Puente said the death toll “is not yet final”, as officials launched an investigation.Puente described the incident as “extremely strange”. All the railway experts consulted by the government “are extremely baffled by the accident”, he told reporters in Madrid.<\/p>

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